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21st Century Schools

I know the director of children's services, Ms Joe Davidson, very well. She has done a lot of work with us on the child and adolescent mental health agencies review. The council's officers have engaged with the national challenge very well, but that does not mean that we are not concerned about the lack of sufficient progress in schools below the threshold, or about the lack of leadership, or about the structural change that we think may be necessary. The right thing for me to do is to send in Mr. Graham Badman to give us a report. We should not be complacent: we should get the report done and then see whether we need to do more.