As the debate begins in Scotland over trust status for schools, the latest issue of Children in Scotland magazine looks at privately managed schools for which parents don't pay - the so-called "free schools" that have been a feature of Swedish education for the past 20 years - to see if they could work in Scotland.
In an exclusive interview, Marie Sedvall Bergsten, director of education at the Skolverket, the Swedish national agency for education, talks about the forthcoming Education Act that aims to tighten regulations on the free schools amid concerns over social segregation.
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