The critical role of local authorities in education, according to the White Paper prequel to the Bill, is fourfold.They will be expected to:

摘要

1. champion choice to ensure there are sufficient high-quality school places 2. co-ordinate fair admissions to make sure there are sufficient high-quality school places, which will not be easy in the new free market without strategic planning. Co-ordinating fair admissions without an admissions forum, with a weaker adjudicator and a simplified admissions code - a euphemism to describe the additional 'wriggle room' that oversubscribed schools will have to secure the children that are most likely to gain the English Baccalaureate, the new gold standard - could be more rhetorical than real