United Kingdom

Ed Balls accused of wasting £1bn on red tape

Clauses in the bill would introduce New York-style report cards for primary and secondary schools. These would include test scores, ratings of how quickly children progress at a school and measures of how happy they are according to parent and pupil surveys.

The report cards would set the public back £27.4m over a decade. But teachers' leaders say they could go too far and over-simplify a school's success.

Another of the bill's clauses promises parents legal guarantees to give their child the right to a good school. This would cost £1.65m each year. Headteachers have warned that schools face an avalanche of litigation if this becomes legislation.

The estimated cost of the different clauses in the bill appear in a report for MPs written by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Ministry of Justice published in November.

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