York Central MP Rachael Maskell claimed, in a question to Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt last Thursday, that the leadership of York’s South Bank multi academy trust (MAT) was ‘impossible to hold to account’.
She also claimed that children at South Bank schools were experiencing ‘significant harm, school refusal, and an escalation in their own mental wellbeing’ as a result of decisions made by the trust’s leadership.
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An £18.5 million shortfall in the funding needed to complete improvements to the front of York Station has been caused by delays, inflation, contracts and design changes, councillors have heard.
A national expansion of free school meals has been welcomed in York
