A radical shake-up of the delivery of education is now on the cards as Wales’s education minister Leighton Andrews makes it clear the current system is not working.
He has ordered a review and said he has “not ruled anything in or out”. The review group will report by the end of March and consider whether school services should be managed centrally by the Welsh government rather than by local authorities. Unions NAHT Cymru and ATL Cymru welcomed the opportunity for debate but admitted some proposals were radical.
In the last two years education inspectorate Estyn has reviewed the performance of 15 of the 22 local authorities. Mr Andrews said these reports had formed the “evidence base” for the review.
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