One of almost 200 policy recommendations is for a wave of "pioneer"schools, free of local authority control, set up and run by parents andcharities in inner cities.
However, while parents and the voluntary sector certainly have a lot tooffer, one difficulty with this vision is the separation of educationfrom other statutory services such as social care and health. A child'seducational difficulties cannot be separated from other issues in his orher life. The current agenda is all about bringing services together,like Gloucestershire's Shape teams (see Interview, p13) which work withclusters of schools, or Essex County Council's TASCC (Teams Around theSchool, Child and Community). The risk with the pioneer schools is theloss of those links with other services.
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