Roy Perry, chairman of the children and young people board at the Local Government Association, said ranking councils by school results «disguises the fact that over 60 per cent of secondary schools are now academies, leaving councils powerless to intervene early and build an improvement programme». (educationbusinessuk.net)
David Simmonds, Tory chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board which has a representative on the panel, said: «We are concerned that ministers seem to be increasingly disregarding the advice of the independent School Playing Fields Advisory Panel. (telegraph.co.uk)
Roy Perry, Conservative leader of Hampshire County Council and the LGA's children and young people board chair, said his council has raised concerns with the Department for Education (DfE). (schoolsweek.co.uk)