Lucy Heller is Chief Executive of Ark, an international children’s charity focussing on education, health and welfare. Ark Schools is one of the UK’s top performing academy groups and currently runs 38 academies teaching about 26,000 pupils in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the UK.
I’ve been around from the beginning of the academy movement. Academies have seen a huge transformation of the system. When we started, academisation...
