MP has No Confidence in Greenwood Academies Trust

Local MP Andrew Selous has taken to Facebook to express his disappointment with Greenwood Academies who are running Houghton Regis Academy. He wrote, “I have spoken to a number of children at Houghton Regis Academy and I am appalled at the bad behaviour in the school and the disruption to lessons which has caused a number of teachers to leave. I have had no satisfactory response from Greenwood Academies Trust on what action they are taking to improve matters and I have made my dissatisfaction very clear to the Department for Education and directly to the Regional Schools Commissioner responsible for Academies Trusts in our area, Dame Kate Dethridge. The Department for Education have told me that they are arranging an emergency meeting tomorrow with the Academy and Central Bedfordshire Council officials. I understand they will also be getting urgent expert advice about the running of the school and will be fully reviewing the management of Greenwood Academies Trust. I am as