Headmaster Robin Dyer was hired by Ampleforth in September 2019 to restructure the school after difficulties to do with the aftermath of the IICSA report which brought back into the open historical cases of sexual abuse that had taken place at the school in the 1980s and 1990s. In Dyer’s first year, significant forward strides were made;  however, in November 2020 the school was told by the Department of Education that it had not taken the necessary steps sufficiently quickly to improve safeguarding and that it was to stop taking new admissions.