The move, which is part of Conservative proposals to free schools from local authority control by expanding the academies programme, would see individual academies determine the extent to which they work with other children's services.
A spokesman for the Conservatives said there are no plans to change the way maintained schools work with children's trust boards, but he said the party is "keen to remove academies from these boards".
He explained: "The success of academies is based on their freedom from local authority control. We need, therefore, to make sure academies are exempted from duties such as these, to protect the autonomy of their governing bodies, which has proved itself to be so critically important to raising standards."
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