A judicial review legal challenge has been launched against the government’s Oak National Academy curriculum quango.
The British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), the Publishers Association, and the Society of Authors said formal action was lodged with the courts earlier this week.
The National Education Union is also backing the action as an “interested party”.
Caroline Wright, BESA’s director general, said Oak “poses an existential risk to the future viability of the sector, which in its current form, will result in an erosion of teacher choice over how to deliver the national curriculum”.
She said the judicial review is “the sector’s option of last resort” claiming the Department for Education “refused any meaningful mitigations that would protect competition within the market”.
