Member

Amendment 447ZB is rather more legally ambitious. Although I thank very much the National Education Union for supporting me in drafting it, I am not at all attached to the fine detail. It seeks to provide a framework—a starting route or a tug at the wheel—to get those “stuck” schools off the dangerous traffic island and pointing in the direction that they want to go. It would provide for the creation of a new instrument, an academy reversal order, to be delivered by the Secretary of State, if they receive representations from an academy school governing body, staff, parents and/or the local authority in support of converting the academy school into a maintained school. The proposed new clause would also provide fairly, and I think appropriately, broad-ranging direction to the Secretary of State to consult