This echoes an article Polly Toynbee wrote some time ago - parents just want fair access to a good local school, not the madness of the "choice" agenda.

Simon Jenkins also touches something which has been a theme of my work over the last few years. Improvement is not always (or even often) about changing structures - although this is the bit that's easiest to focus on. It's also about people, skills, and partnerships.

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