There is shared commitment to market instruments and local accountability.

Schools are being handed over to what are essentially private interests with very little local accountability.

Evidence that the local accountability is the problem, please.

There are also complaints from parents, teachers and district staff members that local accountability has been lost.

The decision was made by senior managers and Health Authority members, none of whom now have any local accountability.

We are moving to re-establish individual responsibility and local accountability for public service professionals.

Forcing any school into academy status destroys this local accountability and changes the whole focus of education.

There is no local accountability in the new system.

That is unfair, and it certainly does not represent local accountability.

The Bill contains no provision for the widely supported proposal to strengthen local accountability.