YES - CRAIG DEARDEN-PHILLIPS, MD, STEPPING OUT
Was the Education Secretary right to pull back from plans for an independent trust and give Doncaster Council the right to make this happen locally? Time will tell, and I hope it turns out to be the right decision.
Watching this unfold, I have been troubled by the fact that what started as a very important discussion about how to address long-term system failure very quickly morphed into one about centralism versus localism.
Indeed, the idea of an independent trust put forward by Professor Julian Le Grand's review came quite quickly to be seen, in the local authority sector at least, as a kind of warning for what might happen to councils if they lose a grip on their own children's services.
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