A BRIEF BACKGROUND TO FREE SCHOOLS
All new schools in England are now ‘Free Schools’. Free schools are funded by the government and are not under Local Authority control. They are academies directly accountable to the Department for Education and must adhere to strict financial regulations. The Department for Education is seeking to open 500 new schools by the end of the current parliament in 2020. Further information is available here https://www.gov.uk/types-of-school/free-schools
All new schools in England are now ‘Free Schools’. Free schools are funded by the government and are not under Local Authority control. They are academies directly accountable to the Department for Education and must adhere to strict financial regulations. The Department for Education is seeking to open 500 new schools by the end of the current parliament in 2020. Further information is available here https://www.gov.uk/types-of-school/free-schools
