Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill
12:00 pm
Maria Miller (Shadow Minister, Children, Schools and Families; Basingstoke, Conservative)
I would like to start the session by turning the attention of the witnesses to some of the practical applications of the Bill, particularly with regard to academies in the first instance. Perhaps I should direct my question first to Dr. Moynihan.
The Independent Academies Association wrote to the Minister, Jim Knight, on 23 February. In that letter, the IAA wrote that the Bill was “deeply disturbing” and cited its concern about the role of the Young People’s Learning Agency and of performing assessments and the duty to co-operate with children’s trusts, which is also an element within the Bill. What effect will those measures have on the running of the academies in the Harris Federation?