Special measures ensure improvements. A school subject to special measures will have regular short-notice Ofsted or Estyn inspections to monitor its improvement. The senior managers and teaching staff can be dismissed and the school governors replaced by an appointed executive committee. If poor performance continues the school may be closed as in the case of the Frank Montgomery School in Kent. The current circumstances under which a school may be placed in special measures, and the procedures to follow, are stipulated by the Education Act 2005. Prior to 2005 special measures were applied to any school which was failing to supply an
Becky Measures Becky Measures Becky Measures (born 13 October 1981 in Derbyshire, England), from Bakewell, Derbyshire, is a radio presenter on Peak FM, an independent local radio station in Derbyshire and a professional charity fund-raiser. She held a variety of jobs including being an extra for the locally filmed television series "Peak Practice" before moving into radio. In 2004, Measures, then 23, decided to have a double mastectomy after a genetic test revealed that she had an 80 to 90 per cent risk of developing breast cancer. Both her mother and a cousin, Helen, had suffered from the same illness. To help