Head claims government has 'dodged responsibility'

It's farcical that central government can dodge responsibility when it wants to, that ministers feel that such stark warnings could be ignored and neither immediate action nor policy change needs to take place.

Because I didn't say, 'You must intervene in this way', they are letting themselves off the hook. As a headteacher without jurisdiction to make decisions about what to do next, I don't know what more I can do than lay out a clearly evidenced picture.

I went into a room (where) people acknowledged something needs to happen. The assumption it didn't because I didn't tell them what to do, is unreasonable.