Tory MPs are increasingly convinced that the government may back down on some of its plans for forced academisation of all schools, I understand.
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David Butterfield
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The Commons is currently holding an Opposition Day debate on the plans, confirmed in last month’s Budget. They have upset a good number of Conservative MPs and councillors, not least because they appear to contradict the government’s commitment to localism. A large number of MPs are complaining in the debate about the dangers of imposing the academy model on all schools, and removing the requirement for academies to have parent governors. Nicky Morgan has been arguing that the government doesn’t want to scrap parent governors, but her arguments don’t seem to be calming colleagues, and those pushing against the reform believe that they have more than enough colleagues on board to stop it from going ahead in its current form.
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