MPs call for overhaul in oversight of England's academy school chains

Extent to which failing trusts are ‘stripping assets from their schools’ is of particular concernParents are being “left in the dark” over who really runs schools in England, according to parliament’s education committee. It has called for the government to overhaul the oversight of academy chains after a string of high-profile failures.Robert Halfon, the Conservative MP who chairs the committee, signalled to the the new education secretary, Damian Hinds, that the s