Education and Inspections Bill
3:00 pm
Annette Brooke (Children & the Family, Cross-Portfolio and Non-Portfolio Responsibilities; Mid Dorset and North Poole, Liberal Democrat)
I agree with many of the hon. Gentleman’s points. Would he agree that, when a school runs into such problems, intervention at the earliest possible time is crucial? In the case of academies, we shall have to see whether that intervention is flexible enough when it comes from the Department for Education and Skills, or whether a good local authority might have picked up the problem sooner.