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HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, who cares deeply about this matter as both a parent and a politician, for the approach he has taken, and I look forward to working with…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingWe are already investing much more in our schools. Today, we are setting out additional, new investment, including £1.6 billion that will allow schools to consider how best they…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingWe will consult on whether to make changes to the national funding formula. But this change is urgent and much needed, and it falls to this Labour Government to deliver.23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingThe hon. Gentleman is right: we are expanding Best Start family hubs, ensuring a real focus on early years, and investing more than £9 billion in expanding early years…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingI agree strongly with my hon. Friend and, like him, I have seen fantastic practice that works incredibly well. It can be variable, and we will make sure that there are clear…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingWe are putting in place significant extra investment—£3.7 billion of capital—to deliver what is needed in specialist provision and to ensure that local areas can deliver what is…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingWe have set out our education estates strategy, which is about ensuring that all schools are inclusive by design; that when we build new schools or significantly refurbish…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingAs a fellow coalfields MP, I would be more than happy to do that. I recognise what my hon. Friend says about the challenges that families face. My message to parents is that while…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingI am grateful to my hon. Friend, and to every Member on both sides of the House, for their contributions about their families and constituents’ experiences. Their voices have been…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingWe are investing more in specialist provision, including specialist provision in mainstream, and we have set out £3.7 billion of capital investment to make that happen, but I…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingI am grateful to my hon. Friend for sharing the views of her constituents, and of professionals across her constituency, as we brought forward this work. Through our Best Start…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingWe are investing more in support for children; there is the extra £4 billion I have announced today, alongside funding that has already gone into the high-needs block and into…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingOur intention is that parents in Harlow and across the country will not have the fight that they have had for far too long, and that when a need is identified, a child is…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingThere is complexity around this. We need to continue to understand the needs that are developing and the failure to meet them sooner. That is a big part of the challenge. As a…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingI take my responsibilities to ensure that we do not unduly alarm parents and that we set out the facts and the details incredibly seriously. As things stand, we anticipate that…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingYes, that is exactly our intention. I know that parents have fought really hard, and will continue to fight really hard, to get the support that their children need, but there are…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingI strongly agree that we need a rich and broad curriculum—one focused on both academic rigour and a wide range of opportunities, including music, sport, art and drama. In our…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingThe right hon. Gentleman is right about the transition to adulthood and ensuring that our children are well prepared for what comes next as they move through the school system and…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingI will seek to respond to the right hon. Lady’s questions. I welcome the broadly constructive approach she has taken, but it would be remiss of me not to point out that so many of…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingYes, we will ensure that children get support without needing to escalate things. It was a pleasure to join my hon. Friend at a family hub in his constituency and to see at first…23 Feb 2026