The government wants all schools to become academies, which stand aside from local authority control.

Q: Would you welcome free schools being returned to local authority control?

They have more freedoms than schools under local authority control.

Following the transfer to local authority control, much of the property on the estate was found to be in poor condition.

The school became an academy in August 2012, and is no longer under local authority control.

Is the motivation to take all schools out of local authority control?

It is now independent of local authority control, and funded directly from central government.

Since April 2011, the school has been an academy independent of local authority control.

This is clearly a further curbing of local authority financial control.

Even more important, they are allowed to opt out of local authority control.