Responding to the Department for Education's plans for children's services, ADCS president Marion Davis asks that DCSs will have a significant influence in taking forward the policies set out in the coalition's programme for government.
The letter indicates that the government's aim to establish "free schools" signals a change in the role of local authorities as the main provider of school places and their accountability for raising standards and the range of services offered to schools.
It states: "Many of us are experienced commissioners of school places and believe we can help to ensure the government's wish for greater innovation and diversity among providers also avoids any destabilising effect on existing schools, and with it the risk that gains for some pupils and schools are at the expense of others."
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