Chiefs warn school reforms not ‘way forward’

By Jamie Hailstone | 16 January 2017

Council chief executives have warned that Holyrood plans to reform the way schools are run are not ‘the way forward for Scottish education’.

In an official submission to the Scottish Government, the Scottish branch of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE) claimed controversial plans to take schools out of local authority control and fund them directly lacked detail, particularly around accountability and how headteachers will spend their budgets.

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