Following growing media reports, public meetings and Cornwall Council agreeing to set up an advisory group to advise the Secretary of State for Education, the Athena trust announced in July that it will disband. Robin Johnson, a former teacher at Camborne, told Panorama: “Behaviour was kind of quashed. Camborne is one of six secondary schools run by the Athena Learning Trust with around 6,500 pupils following the same strict rules. James Ball, Independent councillor at Cornwall Council, who has been vocal in his criticism of the Athena trust has backed concerned parents in Camborne. Panorama reports that in the past three years 500 children have left Athena secondary schools to be educated at home.