Exactly what's happening in South Bank MAT school: Millthorpe, York. Corridors stripped of children's pictures and poems, replaced with trust-branded rules posters. Also from the OGAT stable...

Utterly depressing...

Excellent thread, thankyou Steve And despite plenty of feedback to SBMAT that blaming children for EBSA (emotionally based school avoidance) is not OK, this is the kind of lazy messaging families continue receive. What does this even mean? @Bob3142y Warwick Mansell Naomi Fisher

And it gets worse... These are the rules inside the classrooms at Millthorpe "students will consistently follow all instructions from adults the first time every time" Is this really what we want to teach our children? Not Fine in School

God help us This man is now the South Bank MAT CEO youtube.com/watch?v=iJahmv… (Pause at 59 seconds: pupil has message for CEO)

📝 Ministers have ripped up an academy order for Sheffield’s last local authority-maintained secondary school after it recovered from an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted report in less than a year Full story here 👇 schoolsweek.co.uk/sheffield-scho…

Fantastic news, King Edwards School Sheffield! After a year of toxicity at South Bank MAT, York, we are so pleased to hear you have stopped the academisation of your school schoolsweek.co.uk/sheffield-scho…

Terrifying appointment Excellent reporting & scrutiny Warwick Mansell - thank you This does not bode well for covens of OGAT-disciples-in-senior-management, such as South Bank MAT, York @Bob3142y 💙Rachael Maskell MP Cllr Jonny Crawshaw Pete Kilbane #FlattenTheGrass

Thank you. It's not just the authoritarian regime. It's sacking of TAs, decimation of SEN support, lack of accountability, spiralling central services costs & SLT salaries Congrats again KES parents & staff for defending your children, teachers & community from a dystopian future

After all these years , whoever would have thought it. Academy status makes no difference. ⁦Tempted to say we were right all along but what a spectacular waste of time and money. ⁦ theguardian.com/education/2023…

We really really really need to get away from individualism and blame on this. Absence from school happens for a REASON. There are innumerable reasons why children, parents, families, schools, services are crumbling right now. It didn’t happen overnight. It’s not a surprise.

New: Concerned about your children’s mental health, or special needs provision within an academy trust? There’s nothing we can do, DfE regional directors tell parents educationuncovered.co.uk/news/165711/co…

Parents at schools controlled by South Bank MAT, in York, had raised concerns including effect of sudden cancellation of teaching assistant’s contracts on SEN provision, which had drawn criticism from local MP and councillors

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Returning from a very cold York, where I attended a parents' meeting last night where concerns raised about a MAT. V nice crowd, supportive of teachers, incl NEU rep in attendance, but universally worried about goings-on,+ frustrated at the lack of public-facing accountability.

Two pieces on South Bank multi-academy trust (SBMAT) in York, following a public meeting held last Thursday, which I attended, but which the trust had repeatedly urged the council not to put on.

Warwick Mansell The Cancer Bomb With funding agreement between MAT &DfE SoS direct accountability to communities served is purposely designed out Such central control enables Govt to achieve its political objectives rather than meet local communities' needs &realise their aspirations. Doing to rather than with