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The country's biggest academy sponsor has been plunged into fresh turmoil after it emerged that another of its schools has been judged "inadequate" by Ofsted.
Stockport Academy, sponsored by the United Learning Trust (ULT), has been told that it needs "significant improvement" to address poor standards.
It is the third ULT academy to be described as inadequate by inspectors in less than a year and is the latest in a line of significant setbacks for the sponsor.
Sheffield Park Academy was put into special measures last September after a highly critical Ofsted verdict. This followed Sheffield Springs Academy being given a notice to improve in June.
At the end of last year ULT, a Christian charity, pulled out as the backer of two further planned schools in Oxford and Northampton in...