DfE agrees status change could distract from coping with special measures

From the Gloucester Citizen:

'Reverend Pat Gifford, Chair of governors at St James Junior School, told parents: 'The government body, local authority and diocese have collectively sought approval from the Department for Education to defer the academy conversion process for the foreseeable future.



''The school needs to prioritise coming out of special measures and would have been distracted from this.' She also confirmed that the Department for Education had accepted the request to halt the plan.'