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Adam ski I am absolutely gob smacked that there hasn't been any mention of this in the national media, given there were reports recently about overspend on th Free School programme!

Whilst not wishing to be an apologist for the council, I do think it is unfair to blame them for the appointment of the head. They had nothing to do with it. It is a free school sponsored by the Robert Owen Group and outside the control of the council. Indeed it took a lot of persuasion to get the school to share basic information, such as names of pupils attending, without which and given the difficulties of some pupils, the basic safeguarding checks could not be completed. I thought the premise behind the school was sound, but why start at the end of Year 9? Why not at the start of secondary?