Free school bid reduced transparency because of competitors

From Get Reading: 'Before making the framework document available to the public we did arrange to meet each of the parish councils... three weeks before we were due to meet them, parish councillors attempted to set up a rival bid against ours... we decided that because of the underhand nature of their actions and to protect the ‘intellectual property’ we have over the subject of free schools, we would not meet them for the time being.'




The above is a quote from Gill Purchase, South of Wokingham Free School founder


The piece provides responses from four parish councils.