1.   Even more important, they are allowed to opt out of local authority control.

2.   Other than wanting local authority control of further education, Labour has no policy on that matter either.

3.   Last night parents in the North of Scotland gathered to protest at the decision by Dornoch Academy to opt out of local authority control.

4.   A secondary school is making ten teachers redundant, just a month after it opted out of local authority control.

5.   Calday Grange School voted to leave local authority control in June last year, and Wirral School for Boys went along the same path one week later.

6.   But it includes large parts of the Wear Valley district where the LibDems took spectacular local authority control from Labour in May.

7.   Staff at a Durham hospital are also holding a vigil on Monday in protest against NHS reforms which have led to hospitals opting out of health authority control.

8.   There are divisions too on schools opting out of local authority control and on the National Curriculum.

9.   The card files that critics pine for had authority control.