Working for parents and teachers?

Hardly professional clients. (鈥淔irms scramble to win work on Tories鈥� free schools initiative鈥�, 16 July, page 11). Most would struggle with redecorating their living rooms, never mind delivering a major schools project.

Empowering parents and teachers is one of the coalition鈥檚 more naive plans of liberating the people. However, the truth is these are future project disasters in waiting.

The local authorities were well-drilled and, in most cases, professional clients who knew what they were about. Parents and teachers? I wince at the thought. Good luck to those who choose to advise, they will need it!

Patrick Murdock

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