Yesterday, the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill received its Second Reading in the House of Commons.
We as Conservatives proposed an amendment to the Bill, chiefly because it seeks to undo the huge reforms we made to education in government that delivered results like taking our children from 21st to 7th internationally in Maths and 19th to 9th in Reading, and will make teacher recruitment harder, lower standards and undermine school improvement.
We also called for the setting up of a national inquiry into historical child exploitation focusing on grooming gangs, which Labour voted against.
