YES - John Dunford, general secretary, Association of School and College Leaders
Extending academy freedoms could be the antidote to the excessive bureaucracy of previous years. Key to making it work will be a clear accountability framework and incentives to build on the culture of school-to-school support and partnership working. Academy status for all schools could mitigate the inherent risk of creating a two-tier system, with varying levels of funding and regulation. The danger is that local authority control of schools - which, in practice, has not existed for many years - will be replaced by more national control, with schools more accountable directly to the government.
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