Member

We want to create a self-improving system; a system for our schools that has new creative and intellectual energy, that is curious and wants to learn, that respects and listens to the evidence and that feels it has the agency to make change and the accountability to drive improvement. My amendment would achieve the Government’s goal of consistency in the way in which academies and maintained schools are treated, but would give the same freedoms to both high-performing academies and high-performing maintained schools. I think I am right in saying that this is the work of the noble Baroness, Lady Morris of Yardley, when she was Secretary of State, and my amendment gives the Government the chance to complete her work.