Bright Tribe Trust

The Bright Tribe Trust was a multi-academy trust,[1] active in October 2015, that took on failing schools.[2]

A new Interim Executive Board (IEB) would be brought onto the school, along with a new headteacher. Bright Tribe would cite a school's continued financial deficit, and declining pupil numbers as reasons for subsequently the pulling out of sponsorship.[3]

In November 2017, the local MP and education select committee member Trudy Harrison was spectacularly physically escorted from the Whitehaven Academy site during a visit to check flood damage.[4]

Warnings were given in 2015 about Bright Tribes involvement in the Northern Hub.[5] In November 2017, DfE Officials decided to re-broker Whitehaven Academy to a new sponsor following intense pressure over the state of “dilapidated” school buildings. And in December 2017, news emerged that the majority of Bright Tribe’s £1 million northern hub funding was spent on senior staff, Bright Tribe announced its intention to withdraw from four of its five northern schools because it no longer had a northern hub.[4]

Bright Tribe sponsored 10 academies in Suffolk, Greater Manchester and the North of England.[6]

The academy trust was featured on BBC panorama for defrauding the UK government out of millions of pounds for work that was not completed by companies owned by Michael Dwann.

Employees were exposed to asbestos due to lack of controls put in place by Dwann's companies

List of Schools

References
  1. "BRIGHT TRIBE TRUST - GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  2. Daniel, Brian (16 October 2015). "Failing Haydon Bridge High in Northumberland on brink of becoming an academy". nechronicle. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  3. Perraudin, Frances (3 December 2017). "40,000 children trapped in 'zombie' academy schools". The Observer. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  4. Allen-Kinross, Pippa (16 July 2018). "Embattled Bright Tribe academy trust to close". Schools Week. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  5. "Academy trust accused of making false claims for government grants". The Independent. 10 September 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  6. Whittaker, Freddie (26 April 2018). "The Bright Tribe Files: What's going on at the under-fire academy trust?". Schools Week. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  7. Hume, Holly (28 March 2020). "Primary school making 'rapid' progress, but Ofsted calls for more improvements". Ipswich Star. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  8. Allen-Kinross, Pippa (6 December 2017). "Bright Tribe in discussions over future of northern schools". Schools Week. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
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