It’s one of the most difficult questions in education policy: how much autonomy should publicly funded schools have. The debate has been re-ignited again by Labour’s newly appointed shadow secretary of state for education, Lucy Powell, and the chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw.
Ms Powell, looking ahead to 2020, argued that there was a strong case for local authority oversight of schools, something the left of the Labour Party have held dear; Sir Michael was sharp in his condemnation: this would “return schools to the middle ages – the horse has bolted on that one”; local authority responsibilities, he maintained, should be confined to admissions and safeguarding.
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