Education publishers, authors and resource suppliers have issued a joint call for the government to suspend plans to launch an arm’s-length curriculum body.
The government is taking Oak National Academy into public hands, recently agreeing to pay £1 million to Oak partners for lesson resources created during the pandemic. It plans to commission new materials from November, prompting competition fears among existing resource providers.
Leaders of six industry organisations have now written to new education secretary James Cleverly and schools minister Will Quince warning the plans risk the “collapse of the commercial education resources sector”.
