Member

Regarding the curriculum, as we discussed last week, the Bill ensures that the core national curriculum, once reformed, will be an entitlement for children in academy schools as well as in maintained schools. It will provide the solid and broad foundation of knowledge, skills and attributes that young people need to thrive, which they are entitled to receive in full, whatever school they attend. However, the reformed national curriculum will still give schools, including academies, the flexibility to tailor their teaching to the specific needs of their pupils and communities, continuing to give them space to innovate without a ceiling.