The "centralisation fallacy", while common, is a triumph of hope over experience. There are many counter examples, from social work recording, which ended up as a bureaucratic nightmare, to the National Curriculum, which has gone through so many incoherent incarnations that I've lost count, to the ill-fated Contact Point. There is no evidence that a national adoption agency could develop better practice, or impose it in any coherent way across a huge local workforce. The Education Funding Agency is not an encouraging model, physically remote from the academies it funds, taking action much more slowly than derided local authorities, and known for excessive delays in acting on fraud, and in directing admissions.
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