The White Paper, Educational Excellence Everywhere, has received a lot of publicity, largely because the government caused uproar by expressing the intention that every school should become an academy by 2022.
The Department for Education has now said that it will not introduce legislation to this effect after all. However, there are several other very important proposals which must not be overlooked.
Like any White Paper, it is a mixture of ideas which are at different stages of development. Some chapters, such as that devoted to high expectations and curriculum, are mainly broad restatements of existing policies already being implemented.
Others, such as the chapter on resources, signpost recent announcements and consultations, and others refer to policies which have very little detail as yet, but express the government’s broad intentions.
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