In her inaugural presidential address, Rachel Dickinson said that a decade of education reform has led to "one of the most autonomous school systems in the world" and fragmentation of responsibility for improving school performance.
While councils have a legal duty to promote access to good education they are not effectively funded to help schools improve, says Dickinson, who wants to see greater government investment in school improvement services.
"Any reasonable person would, and does, expect their local authority to have a clear, unambiguous role in relation to all the schools in its area given our wide-ranging statutory duties to promote high educational standards, make sure there are enough local places to meet demand and that all local children have fair access to a place at a good local school," she said.
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