Academies Bill [HL]

38: After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause— "Local authority duties (1) The Secretary of State may by order arrange for a local authority to carry out any of the activities in subsection (2). (2) The activities are— (a) the oversight and monitoring of Academies in its area; (b) intervention and challenge when an Academy is under-performing; (c) strategies and plans of action for the conversion of schools in its area into Academies; (d) facilitating the integration of the work of Academies with that of maintained schools in the area; (e) anything else that the Secretary of State may do in relation to Academies. (3) An order made under this section is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament."