Clause 2 - Duties in relation to diversity and choice
Education and Inspections Bill
6:00 pm
David Chaytor (Bury North, Labour)
I am arguing precisely the opposite. I am saying that diversity within a school is more important than diversity between schools. I am less concerned about having different types of ownership or governance, or different categories of school as a matter of policy, and more concerned about having a curriculum in each school that is sufficiently flexible to match the range of individual needs that each child brings to that school. It is far more important to focus on diversity within the school than on diversity between different categories of schools.