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Healthwatch England
Tuesday 26th April 2016

(8 years, 7 months ago)

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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I agree entirely. We want parents to be much more engaged in their child’s education. That is absolutely essential, as I think we all agree. As I say, we will put in place a clear expectation on academies to do that.

Lord Cormack Portrait Lord Cormack (Con)
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My Lords, is not the policy for compulsory academies nationalisation rather than privatisation?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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It is a consistent system. We feel that the academy system is the best way to give freedom to the front line and to enable heads to recruit, train, retain, develop and deploy staff. Many freedoms and other benefits come from being an academy and part of a family of schools in a multi-academy trust.

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