The wicked Blair is charged with having sent his eldest son to a grammar school, when in fact Euan was consigned to a voluntary aided school.
In Nottingham the process was fraught, in part because proposals would have led to different holidays in academies, voluntary aided and community schools – and different holidays in schools in the city and in the surrounding areas.
Under the current structure, academies, foundation, voluntary aided and foundation special schools have the power to set their own term dates, while local authorities are responsible for setting term dates for community and voluntary controlled schools.
In the urban area where I grew up we had the choice of comprehensive, grammar, secondary modern, faith, non-faith, council, voluntary aided, uniform, non-uniform, single sex and co-educational schools.
Church schools come in two types: the terrifically popular "voluntary aided" ones, which can select their pupils according to the professed faith of their parents; and the "voluntary controlled" ones, which cannot select on this basis.
Even if local councils were to agree, governors at voluntary aided and foundation schools could still choose other dates.
