SIR - I fail to understand how turning a school into a Trust school run by parents, a charity or a private company, will necessarily cause it to be better run or more financial viable.
After all, Trust hospitals and primary care trusts on the whole seem to be broke. I do not understand either how a private company can generate enough profit out of running a school to interest its shareholders. Do they cut costs, services or staff? I gather that private companies are now interested in running GP practices as well as hospitals. Trust surgeries? I assume that the public funding which presently goes to surgeries will instead be passed to the private company - but again, how might this generate sufficient profit?
WENDY HANDS,
Upton-upon-Severn,
Worcestershire.
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