Member

I appealed to the Minister of State, saying that this was not the right way to go. Thankfully, the Minister in your Lordships’ House invited the commissioner, a local authority representative and me to a meeting, and took the decision that there must be an Ofsted inspection of the school within six months, by an experienced retired HMI, to see what it was doing. The inspection happened and declared it not a failing school, so the brokerage stopped.