Inspiration Trust

In 2014 an investigation took place into whether three of the Inspiration Trust's schools were given unauthorised advance notice of Ofsted inspections.

[18] In 2015 a local Member of Parliament, Clive Lewis, questioned the Trust's fitness to run schools.

[19] In 2018 there was concern about Sir Theodore's continuing role in the trust given that he had become Academies Minister, although he was no longer "a person of significant control".

[22] In 2019 there was publicity about the amount the trust was deducting from schools' budgets to fund development of the curriculum.

[23] In summer 2020, de Souza took a high-profile decision to reopen her schools in mid August in response to the educational time lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic.