Mr. Nigel Frith:

At best, shared education is a series of incremental steps, the key question being what the vision is for this and where it is leading. At worst, it becomes an excuse to avoid the real issues, and that is a huge concern for us looking at the amount of funding being poured into shared education as opposed to integrated education. If the two concepts could be given even a level playing field in terms of political support and funding, we would be a lot further forward from where we are now, and we could be in danger of putting the Integrated Education Fund, IEF, out of business as it would like to happen.