Clause 7
Education and Inspections Bill
6:30 pm
David Chaytor (Bury North, Labour)
I challenge the idea that 50 is a large number of parents. Fifty parents could be 25 families, who could live on the same street. When a school might, typically, have 1,200 children and 2,500 or more parents, how can the hon. Gentleman seriously argue that 25 families could have the power completely to destabilise the education system throughout the local authority?