Schools: Standards
Education
Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will reduce the number of school policies that each school is required to adopt.
Nick Gibb (Minister of State (Schools), Education; Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Conservative)
holding answer
This Government are strongly committed to freeing all schools from unnecessary bureaucracy so that they can focus on their core purpose of raising standards for all children.
We will shortly be outlining a package of measures to reduce the bureaucratic load on schools, including a substantial reduction in the number of policies schools are required to produce.