What is the local authority trying to achieve?

3  Manchester City Council (Manchester) aims to use BSF to:

■ attract pupils and parents who have previously travelled to learn outside its borders and deliver a 'step change' in education services;

■ establish seven Academies, each sponsored by the Local Authority and a local business;

■ extend its ICT learning platform to neighbourhood areas, allowing people to access the school network and its content from schools, houses and institutions across the city;

■ provide more sustainable features in the new BSF schools;

■ rationalise and co-locate its Special Educational Needs estate with its secondary schools.