Education and Inspections Bill

It seems to me that it is pejorative for the noble Lord to speak of the higher performing schools, as though by definition community schools are low performing schools and voluntary-aided schools are not. I know there is some evidence—the noble Baroness, Lady Buscombe, cited some evidence—to indicate that there is a higher performance in voluntary-aided schools, but when one looks at the Sutton Trust research one sees that that is very closely linked to income.