Education spokeswoman Lucy Powell says party will not return free schools to council control but local government should intervene whether necessaryThe shadow education secretary,Lucy Powell, has said a Labour government would bring academies and free schools under greater local authority oversight – including over school place planning and failing institutions – but she admitted the party would take time to think through the policy. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s nowadays programme before Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to the Labour party’s conference in Brighton, and Powell said the party would not return free schools to local authority control,but would allow local government to intervene where essential.
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Source: theguardian.com