There are concerns about his lack of experience and about his independence as he is within a small network of favoured politically-connected government advisers and his Frontline social work education company has benefitted from significant government funding.
The alarm calls about the independence of the review are also ringing loudly as the “MacAlister Review” is embedded in the Department for Education with a team of government civil servants assisting MacAlister. The review report will be the “MacAlister Report” authored by MacAlister aided by the civil servants appointed by the DfE.
It heightens the fears that this review is only within the control of the government and is not cross-party or independent, and with MacAlister as the government’s appointed agent. He, with the civil servants will determine with whom he engages and what views are given attention.
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