with Linda Alexander
The Government's new
Education Bill threatens to break up the Inner London Education Authority by giving boroughs the right to opt out and run education themselves. Three
Conservative-controlled boroughs have already made it clear that they want to take up this option; they claim that they can do a better job. But what is the case for ILEA? What is its role. and what will be the effect on those boroughs that want to stay with the Authority? In Wandsworth a local by-election yesterday could provide a guide to how electors view the educational case for and against opting out of ILEA.
Producer FRANK ASH
Editor PETER RIDING (e)