{"id":395762,"date":"2026-01-28T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395762\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:22:09","slug":"academy-trust-ceo-on-leave-of-absence-amid-west-midlands-school-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395762\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy trust CEO on &#8216;leave of absence&#8217; amid West Midlands school strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the trust said Miller would assume the &#8220;interim responsibility of accounting officer and CEO of the trust&#8221; while also acting as interim chief financial officer, a role he was appointed to at the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that Miller had &#8220;many years of experience successfully supporting other academy trusts&#8221; and was now &#8220;focused on working productively and transparently&#8221; with trade unions to &#8220;resolve the current industrial action as swiftly as possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust added that arrangements remained in place &#8220;to ensure pupils can continue their learning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Recognising the frustration the presented situation was causing, the academy trust said it welcomed &#8220;support and challenge&#8221;, but that any challenge should be &#8220;constructive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also called for an end of staff being abused on social media or in messages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone is working as hard as possible to resolve these issues and we would urge all engagement to be respectful going forward,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, the trust said Miller would assume the &#8220;interim responsibility of accounting officer and CEO of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-395762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}