Clause 36
Education and Inspections Bill
4:00 pm
David Chaytor (Bury North, Labour)
To continue the point on streaming and setting that I was making before the lunch break, there is a contradiction between the Opposition’s policy of devolving as many powers as possible to individual schools and their plan simultaneously to centralise decisions on streaming and setting. I am sure that they appreciate that that is a contradiction, which must be worked out.
The evidence and advice of those working within the education service on streaming and setting is not quite as straightforward as the Opposition would like us to believe.