Member

That is why my amendment is carefully put together, using the help of people cleverer and more plugged in than me. It would provide local authorities with the ability to step in where existing admissions behaviour is not in the interests of children, but it would protect good schools from arbitrary interventions by the local authority. In my own trust, we were asked recently by the local authority to reduce the PAN of an “outstanding” rated primary school in Norwich to deal with its bureaucratic problem, as I outlined a moment ago. In Norwich there are around 24 primary schools but last year only five achieved national or better at key stage 2. That is the crisis, and the solution is not strangulating the few that are doing a good job.