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John Dunford: You know what I mean. It is that whole area. The idea in the Bill is that local authorities should be told to take on more advisory services if they have quite a few schools that are underperforming. What I hope you mean by that, and I think that you should say so in the Bill, is that local authorities should commission advisory services to support the schools. We do not want people sitting in county hall waiting for schools to go down the pan and then jumping out and supporting them; we want a process of monitoring in local authorities that produces something that is, as it were, when-ready support for schools. In the end, it is good schools supporting weaker schools that we know works. Those good schools must be commissioned by local authorities to support the weaker schools. That, we think, is the right way forward.
I have one more comment, Chairman. We worry about the “schools causing concern” labels, because we think that local authorities will try to avoid the Secretary of State doing that to them by slapping on a few more labels.