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TEACHERS in London have joined legal action to prevent governors from transferring a successful comprehensive school to a multi-academy trust.
Governors at Holland Park School, a co-educational comprehensive secondary school, decided to end its existing single academy status and pass the school over to the multi-academy United Learning Trust.
Parents who launched legal action against the transfer have now been joined by the National Education Union (NEU).
They say the governors failed to consult parents and staff and have filed for a High Court judicial review of the governors’ action.
NEU joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said: “It is regrettable that the dispute over Holland Park’s future has reached such an impasse.
“With this judicial review, to which the NEU is joining as a second claimant, we will seek to bring sense to the situation and secure a proper, meaningful consultation.
“It is not too late for the governing body to withdraw its plans and work to heal the rifts they have created through their hasty actions.”
