The Queen's speech set out the legislative framework for taking forward the range of major school reforms being planned by the Coalition Government, and as anticipated, a major thrust of the reforms involves a rapid extension of academy schools. Whilst a number of other crucial school reforms are in the pipeline (e.g. the establishment of 'free schools'), the main priority of the TUC and school workforce unions at present is to campaign against the Academies Bill. And in particular to oppose plans by government to enable a significant number of schools to transfer to academy status early in the new school year with limited consultation with parents, staff, pupils, and the local community.
This briefing provides further information on the campaign against the Academies Bill, including access to the campaigning materials that have been jointly produced by the school workforce unions (available at: www.tuc.org.uk/academies). The aim of the briefing is to help all unions make the case within their own memberships of the urgent need to support the campaign, especially as regards influencing schools in their local community not to take up the offer from the Secretary of State to be fast-tracked to academy status early in the new school year.
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