Education and Inspections Bill
1:15 pm
David Chaytor (Bury North, Labour)
I agree that those factors can inhibit, but they can also encourage and strengthen. For every one example of a school in difficulties that happens to be a community school, or that happens to be located in the area of a less than effective local authority, any Member of this House could, from their experience and constituencies, quote examples of first-class, high-performing community schools, and local authorities that are instrumental in driving up performance across their district. I do not imagine for one moment that the Opposition will listen to, or take on board, what I say, but I want to get it on record that the sweeping generalisation that LEAs are an obstruction to the advancement of educational improvement is naive and misguided.