Clause 57 - Powers of secretary of state to secure proper performance of lea's functions
Education Bill
4:45 pm
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West, Conservative)
I accept much of what the Minister said, but I would like his comments on the changed geometry that might affect the LEA's role and therefore what is expected of it. I spoke about schools without earned autonomy but with exemptions to innovate, such as city academies, the excellence in cities programme and others. That removes some schools in part from the day-to-day supervision of the LEA. In some LEA areas, it is not difficult to imagine that that could become a majority, or at least a large proportion, of schools. In that case, the measures applied to LEAs may be rather different if an LEA has 30 schools, of which one is perceived to be failing but the other 29 are succeeding. If an LEA is left with two or three schools, and one or two of those are failing, the LEA may largely be responsible.