How are you assessing the progress of the academies that are open? Have they been inspected by Ofsted yet?
The Academies Division at the DCSF has a team of advisers who work closely with Academies to monitor their progress and give support and advice. The DCSF has an agreement with Ofsted that they will carry out a monitoring inspection of new Academies, under Section 3 of the School Inspections Act 1996, in the 5th or 6th term of their existence and a full published Ofsted inspection within the third academic year. We have commissioned an extensive longitudinal evaluation of the Academies programme.