Parents distance themselves from reform document after their version is rejected as 'inappropriate'
Three members of the English Schools Foundation's taskforce reviewing its governance and structure have resigned after a row over its final consultation document.
Parents Christine Houston, Jennifer Saran and Nick Bilcliffe quit the 14-member group after being outvoted by the majority.
They claim they were given just 90 minutes to approve a paper that was 'radically different' from a version Ms Houston and Ms Saran had drafted and had been agreed as a working document at the previous meeting.
'I resigned because this was a sham. I am not prepared to have my name attached to an illegitimate document. We were charged with reform and have failed,' Ms Houston said. 'I'm disgusted that I wasted 100 hours for them to rewrite the document.'
But parent Charles Grieves, who chaired the taskforce, said the pair's draft was rejected by the majority of the taskforce as inappropriate and going 'beyond the brief'.