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Local authority restructure won't be implemented when taskforce reports in the new year, minister reveals.
Major reforms to the structure of education services in Wales will not be taken forward until after next May's Assembly elections, TES Cymru can reveal.
Last week, education minister Leighton Andrews announced the launch of a special taskforce to examine whether education services should be taken out of the hands of Wales' 22 local authorities.
The group, comprised of five experts, will examine which services should be provided nationally, regionally and locally and which should be devolved to schools.
It will run alongside the funding review which is part of the wider effort to cut bureaucracy and move...