During an education select committee session on schools and further education, Sir Michael Wilshaw told MPs that councils must have a role overseeing academies in order to prevent further cases of extremism in schools from occurring in the wake of last year's Trojan Horse scandal.
“Local authorities have responsibility for ensuring that all their children are safe,” Wilshaw said.
“They have responsibility for ensuring all their children are in good educational provision – that means they have to have oversight of what’s happening in academies.”
Wilshaw said that the Birmingham schools involved in the Trojan Horse scandal had deserved their previously awarded “outstanding” Ofsted ratings, but their rapid decline went unnoticed after the head teachers responsible for the high standards were moved on by “very aggressive governors”.
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