In 2008, when Michael Gove was Shadow Children's Secretary, I was part of an Association of Directors of Children's Services delegation to meet him. The idea was to discuss his thinking and provide a professional perspective to help inform his views. Looking back, the first aim was met, but the second was doomed to fail. Gove has never proved amenable to the professional point of view. We did, though, hear a clear statement of his intentions for education. "We are intending", he said, grammatically as always, "rapidly to legislate to remove the shackles of local bureaucracy from schools" and to free up schools to innovate without the dead weight of local authorities.
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