Schools: Free Schools

Baroness Massey of Darwen Excerpts

Wednesday 14th May 2014 Lords Chamber

[Lord Nash]

The right reverend Prelate makes an extremely good point. Although it is true that a number of outstanding schools have been established entirely independently, the way forward is the school-to-school support model, with schools operating in local clusters and secondaries working with their primaries. We are taking this learning, which has been very successful in the academy movement, into the free schools movement.

[Baroness Massey of Darwen (Lab)]

My Lords, we all know that some free schools have not been as successful as the noble Lord makes out. However, apart from that, can he tell the House how the impact and competence of non-qualified teachers will be assessed?

[Lord Nash]

By the results of the schools.