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The move will end centralised prescription of teaching methods and oversight of literacy and numeracy hours in primary schools and save the Government up to £100 a million a year currently spent on private consultants.

Money will be redirected to encouraging successful schools to forge networks with lower-performing neighbours and to buy in their own advisers to help drive up standards, The Guardian reported.

The Department for Children, Schools and Families confirmed that the Education White Paper expected to be published next Tuesday will set out a new approach to provide more "tailored" support to schools, based on their individual needs and circumstances.

A spokesman insisted that the changes were a mark of the success of the National Strategies introduced after 1997, which were the flagship of Labour's education policy under Tony Blair.

He stressed that the reforms were not about scrapping the daily literacy and numeracy hours, introduced in the early years of the Blair administration to boost standards in core subjects at the start of children's school careers.

Schools are expected to continue having daily maths and English lessons, but there will be no central bureaucracy to support it.

Tuesday's White Paper is also expected to include new US-style "report cards", giving schools grades on a scale of A to F as well as information about truancy levels, behaviour and sporting achievements.

The Guardian quoted sources close to the White Paper as saying that the Government's national strategy contracts with consultants Capita will be wound down from 2011.

The company currently provides materials and training to standardise teaching across schools as well as management advice.