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Notices to academy trusts and schools in the East of England

Notices issued to academy trusts and local-authority-maintained schools following an Ofsted inspection or failure to engage with targeted regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) intervention.

Updates to this page

From:
Regional Department for Education (DfE) Directors
Published:
26 January 2024
Last updated:
3 July 2026
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  1. Added 'The Basildon Lower Academy (Essex): warning notice' to 'Warning notices: 'requires significant improvement' Ofsted judgement'.

  2. Added 'Hylands School (Essex): warning notice' to 'Warning notices: 'special measures' Ofsted judgements'.

  3. Added notices for 'Harwich and Dovercourt High School (Essex)' and 'Neale-Wade Academy (Cambridgeshire)' to 'Warning notices: 'requires significant improvement' Ofsted judgement'.

  4. Added 'Riverside Meadows Academy (Cambridgeshire): warning notice' to 'Warning notices: 'requires significant improvement' Ofsted judgement'.

  5. Added 'Westbourne Academy (Ipswich): warning notice' to 'Warning notices: 'special measures' Ofsted judgements'.

  6. Added 'Columbus School and College (Essex): warning notice' to the collection.

  7. Added 'Queen Katharine Academy (Peterborough): warning notice' to 'Warning notices: 'requires significant improvement' Ofsted judgement'.

  8. Added 'Stone Lodge Academy (Suffolk): warning notice' to 'Warning notices: 'requires significant improvement' Ofsted judgement'.

  9. Added 'Chase High School (Essex): warning notice' to 'Warning notices: 'special measures' Ofsted judgements'.

  10. Added 'Windmill Hill School (Luton): warning notice' to 'Warning notices: 'inadequate' Ofsted judgements'.

  11. Added 'Two Village Church of England Primary School (Essex): warning notice' under the heading 'Warning notices: academies not making necessary improvements'.

  12. Added 'Gilbert Inglefield Academy (Bedfordshire): warning notice' to the 'Warning notices: ''inadequate' Ofsted judgements' section.

  13. Added 'St Felix Roman Catholic Primary School (Haverhill): warning notice' and 'Valley Primary Academy (Norwich): warning notice' to 'inadequate' Ofsted judgements.

  14. Added 'Langham Oaks (Essex): warning notice' to 'Warning notices: academies not making necessary improvements'.

  15. Added 'Hillside Primary School (Suffolk): warning notice', 'Gusford Community Primary School (Suffolk): warning notice', 'Ridgeway Academy (Hertfordshire): warning notice' and 'Hertswood Academy (Boreham Wood): warning notice' to warning notices: academies not making necessary improvements. Added 'The Cornelius Vermuyden School (Essex): warning notice' and 'All Saints Academy Dunstable (Bedfordshire): warning notice' to warning notices: 'inadequate' Ofsted judgements.

  16. First published.

Notices from Jonathan Duff, Department for Education (DfE) Regional Director for the East of England to:

  • academy trusts following either:
    • an Ofsted inspection at an academy
    • failure to engage with targeted RISE intervention
  • local-authority-maintained schools for:
    • failure to engage with targeted RISE intervention

The support and intervention in schools guidance details the action that regional directors may take when schools:

  • are underperforming
  • have weaknesses in safeguarding, governance or financial management
  • fail to engage with RISE intervention

Warning notices: 'requires significant improvement' Ofsted judgement

Notices issued by DfE regional directors to academies judged ‘requires significant improvement’ by Ofsted, after 2 September 2024.

Warning notices: 'special measures' Ofsted judgements

Notices issued by DfE regional directors to academies judged as requiring ‘special measures’ by Ofsted, after 2 September 2024.

Warning notices: 'inadequate' Ofsted judgements

Notices from DfE regional directors to academies that were judged ‘Inadequate’ by Ofsted, up until the 2 September 2024 when the Ofsted single word judgement system was revised.

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