Member

I would be the first to admit this is not a complete legal outline of the way forward, but it is a start. I would be delighted—I live in hope—to meet the Minister and discuss how this framework might be achieved. It would provide the possibility; it would not force anything to happen. The evidence is not just that many schools want an out from the disempowering tangles in which they have been enmeshed in the anti-democratic systems brought in over recent decades; more than that, not giving them this route means going against the evidence of what works for schools, communities and, of course, the pupils. I look forward to our further debate.