Local authorities will be given a £50m fund from next year to help monitor and commission services for low-performing schools, the government has announced.
Education secretary Justine Greening also announced that council-run schools will be allowed to pool their funding to buy improvement services.
The funding programme also includes a new £140m Strategic School Improvement Fund to increase the number of good school places available.
Ms Greening said: ‘I want this investment to not only transform outcomes for children by improving schools, but also to make sure our school-led system learns from that work. That is why the Education Endowment Foundation has a key role to play in this project.
‘It’s vital that we now pull these two aspects together to get the maximum impact for children and schools.’
The Government used the announcement to confirm it was still committed to changing all schools into academies, although no school will be forced to convert.
