MPs criticise failure to tackle excessive salaries in academies

MPs said high salaries paid to senior staff in academy trusts were depriving cash-strapped schools of vital funds.The government has come under fire over a series of shortcomings in its oversight of academies, including a failure to address excessive salaries paid to senior staff and inadequate rules governing related party business transactions involving £120m of public money.A hard-hitting report by MPs on the public accounts committee (PAC) said unjustifiably high salaries in academy tr