ABSTRACT
In planning—developing policy and bringing about necessary changes smoothly and economically—the record is much less impressive. People often explain it as a partnership, notably between the Department of Education and Science, the local authority (LEA) and the teacher. The government of the day declared its intention in 1965 to introduce comprehensive education. This, theoretically, was a shift of power to the centre. The potential for constructive planning by LEAS in partnership with the education ministry envisaged by the 1944 Act is diminished when the direct line between the two is weakened and when both locally and centrally educational leadership is circumscribed. Planning initiative seems now to have passed outside the education service. Planning the economy, town and country planning and latterly planning the strategy of local authorities have all been taken up, and each has produced its specialists.
