Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to incorporate quality assurance principles into its plans for the Oak National Academy.

Oak National Academy will embed quality assurance principles into every stage of developing new curriculum resources. Curriculum partners secured through the open procurement process will need to demonstrate high standards of quality in their approach to curriculum design, and all resources will be reviewed by teachers and subject experts before being finalised.

The Department is confident that Oak will be operating robust quality assurance processes and ensuring that resources are continuously improved through both active testing and responding to user feedback. Oak will be subject to a review after its first two years of operation, as part of the wider Public Bodies Review Programme.