"Make haste slowly". Spoken from the lips of David Hawker, chair of the Association of Directors of Education and Children's Services, this may seem like a contradictory approach to reform.
But Hawker, responding to last week's education and skills select committee report into the Every Child Matters green paper, sums up a major contradiction identified by the committee - the need for caution coupled with a fierce drive for change.
The report commends the Government for embarking on "an ambitious and wide-ranging programme" of reform. It also credits the workers responsible for delivering change, and flags up the "almost universal" support for the paper's aims.
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