Following the publication of the government’s Schools that Work for Everyone, an alternative Green Paper has been proposed by the Headteachers’ Roundtable.

The alternative Green Paper focuses on “the educational necessities of creating a school system that enables all to thrive” rather than addressing the political imperatives that it claims have been shown in recent government papers.

The Headteachers’ Roundtable includes proposals such as:

• Creating one coherently structured school system with no expansion of grammar schools
• Establishing an accountability system for determining school effectiveness that improves on current measures
• Implementing standardised national assessments at four year intervals
• Improving teacher recruitment and retention via one centralised entry route, a national recruitment fund, a professional development programme and support for the College of Teaching
• The provision of fairer funding.