Sector is being targeted by auditors

A piece in Wiltshire Business says that with 150 academy clients Bishop Fleming is the second largest accountancy firm in the sector.

Northern Academy Trust head becomes executive director

Bill Jordan,  North Shore Academy principal - part of the Northern Education Trust (NET) - is due to become executive director and take over at Grangefield Academy, also part of NET.

Questions for Education Select Committee to put to Harris Federation

Witnesses facing the Education Select Committee at 9.30 tomorrow morning (Wednesday 3 September) include Prospects Academies Trust and the Harris Federation - below are some questions for Harris Federation.

EFA chief exec's June interview

Peter Lauener, chief executive of the Education Funding Agency was interviewed by Civil Service World in June. Some of the issues raised:

• The EFA is not legally separate from DfE in order to avoid data sharing problems which the magazine said 'was previously a problem for the YPLA...'