Academy boss paid £550,000 calls for greater scrutiny of headteacher pay
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Sir Dan Moynihan, who has a salary and benefits package of £550,000 for leading an academy chain, has said that large salaries of heads who run only one or two schools should be looked at. But Sir Dan, chief executive of the Harris Federation, which runs 48 schools, said it was “different” when there is a large number of schools in an academy trust. “But it’s different when there is a large number of schools and is doing well and disadvantaged kids are making progress.” Financial accounts earlier this year revealed that the head of Holland Park School, an academy in Kensington in west London – once dubbed the “socialist Eton” – saw his pay rise to £260,000. A report from the Public Accounts Committee last year said academy trusts that pay their bosses “unjustifiably” high salaries could spend taxpayers’ money better on improving children’s education.
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