Another powerful intervention from one of the country's most successful teachers criticising the Schools Bill. On the World at One Sir Daniel Moynihan said: "We are worried in the sector about what the problems are that the changes are designed to fix." "We can offer better pay, its not clear why constraining that solves a problem" "Why academies... should be constrained beats me, I don't know." "There's constraint on terms and conditions, there's requirement to follow the national curriculum" "Mature people in the STEM profession in science and engineering who might come in at a mature age to teach their subject to a high level, might not be qualified as teachers, now they'll have to be, and that may well put them off" "If the Bill goes through as intended at the moment then academies may look very different and may be very little different from maintained schools." "We've got 55 schools, two thirds joined us, they were failing in the most deprived parts of the capital city with highly disadvantaged kids, low income children. Most of those schools are now outstanding. We've been able to achieve that because of the freedoms that academy powers have given us, which was originally intoduced by Tony Blair and David Blunkett, its a Labour reform, and they did it because they knew it was the solution to address disadvantage." "The answer to giving maintained schools the option to perform even better is to give them academy freedoms, not to take the freedoms away from us. "We're hoping some of this will be amended. It would be a terrible shame if the reforms that Labour introduced over 20 years ago... were watered down."