The news that three London Boroughs are to share a single Director leads me to think both about the realities of what it will be like and why the Boroughs have made the decision. From the outside, it feels like 'The Servant of Three Masters'. Whatever the short-term good intentions of the politicians, they will want 'their' Director to be there when it counts; when there is a problem, for example. School federations can work well in the short term but they tend to depend heavily on the quality of the Executive Headteacher - and the problem is not the first Executive Headteacher, but the second and third.
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