ESSEX County Council has refused to reveal which failing schools it has issued with notices ordering them to improve.

The authority can issue improvement notices to school governing bodies when “unacceptably low standards of performance” by pupils is observed.

But the council has refused a Freedom of Information request from a member of the public, asking for a list of all schools on warning or improvement notices.

Reported by the Essex Echo. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.