Children and Young People Now quotes Jo Cleary, the chair of the college, as saying
that its board is working to ensure that the college’s legacy is “secured and
retained”. Apparently the board is making arrangements to “make sure that there
is a smooth and safe transition” of functions and resources. They propose to
make updates on the details of these arrangements as they agree them.
Although I am not clear
about how this situation can be avoided, it feels wholly wrong to me that the
board which has presided over the college’s untimely demise should now be in
sole charge of the funeral arrangements – and that the rest of us will just be
informed of these in due course. Surely there should be some wider discussion
about how the transition takes place and about what functions and resources are
salvaged and by whom?
Whether the government has some role to play
in bringing key stakeholders together or whether key groups within the
profession can take hold of the issue I do not know. But I do not think it
should be left to the college’s board to decide what its legacy will be.
