The recently passed Education and Adoption Act 2016 and the new White Paper, Education Excellence Everywhere (the name seemingly a tortured hat tip to Tony Blair’s “education, education, education”) suggests that the government wants parents out of the way.
The Act removes the need to consult parents if a “coasting” school is forced to become an academy, ostensibly because a few noisy anti-academy campaigns had slowed down or stopped a small number of conversions. The proposals in the White Paper go even further by stripping out the role of parent-governor.
The government, put onto the backfoot by the outcry from parents, governors and even some of its own MPs, has rapidly moved to try to mollify its critics, insisting it is not removing the ability for schools to appoint parent-governors, just the requirement to do so.
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