John Bald: Councils will be given more power to show their vindictiveness towards academically successful schools

John Bald: Councils will be given more power to show their vindictiveness towards academically successful schools

John Bald is a former Ofsted inspector. He is Vice-President of the Conservative Education Society. The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill has cleared the Commons in remarkably short order. Its 144 pages and innumerable sub-sections are a long way from the brief resolution  – an amendment to a Conservative motion advocating the opposite! – that launched the comprehensive takeover in 1965. It nevertheless shares the goal of allowing Labour to …