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Academies Bill [Lords]

I am slightly concerned that words such as ““freedom”” are being used in this context. It is one of those concepts like ““apple pie”” and ““mother's milk””, which nobody can disagree with. Given that we have a personalised curriculum and given that much work has been done with head teachers to see what can be developed and offered at key stages 3 and 4, my concern is that we are effectively granting the freedom to disapply the curriculum from many vulnerable children and to restrict what is offered on the curricular diet to certain groups of children. I fear that head teachers will say, ““There's no point in that child learning French; he can barely speak English. Sorry””.