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Education and Inspections Bill

I understand the hon. Gentleman’s concern about the need to tackle failing schools, which is shared in all parts of the House. However, he seems to be making a simplistic link by saying that the only way to improve schools is for them to be something other than community schools. May I remind him what the Select Committee found in its inquiry? It stated:"““No causal link has been demonstrated between external partners and the success of a school, or between the independence of a school from local authority control and its success.””" Is the matter not far more complicated than he portrays? The success of schools depends on good heads and good teachers. It is not necessarily related to the type of school.