When Michael Gove was moved on from secretary of state for education in the coalition government, I commented that we might be surprised to find we miss him in some respects. And so it goes.
The government mantra of freeing up schools from national burdens to let them decide how to deploy support staff, is being trotted out to justify every workforce decision. And the lack of consideration of the unintended consequences of some of these policy decisions (something Mr Gove was always keen to look out for) seems reckless.
The jaw-dropping dumping of the completed Teaching Assistant Professional Standards last autumn was unnecessary and self-defeating.
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