Isn't the point of RISE teams to do exactly this mentoring? Stephen's article raises some great points, but there is a planned lever for failing schools.

RISE means upskilling the leaders you have, rather than jumping straight to replacing them. In a retention crisis doesn't this have merit?

Ah of course, thanks! If I'd read it properly I'd have seen Gove speaking

Is that true compared to the the 2010 commons debate too? Anecdotally the Lords often have less posturing and more substantive questions

Completely - it's really interesting that while advocating for free speech, Musk also bans words he dislikes (e.g terf), from X as abusive.

In lots of Councils, school support is largely done by trusts / LA school partnerships now anyway. Education teams hollowed out.