Education and Inspections Bill
1:15 pm
John Hayes (Shadow Minister (Vocational Education), Education; South Holland and The Deepings, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right about the criteria that define a good school. They might be summed up as expectations. Expectations are critical in all the areas that he described—leadership, quality of teaching and learning, and the quality of the home-school relationship. He is also right that those things are, in essence, more important than structure, but structure can be inhibiting. We should consider the role of those who manage and resource schools—those to whom the schools are answerable—because they can inhibit the qualities that he described. That is at the heart of the White Paper’s consideration and the Bill, is it not?