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HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. He has not only diagnosed the problem, but recommended a solution. We have established a child poverty taskforce, chaired by the Secretary of…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionI share my hon. Friend’s concerns. I do not know the details of the specific school, but a school judged by Ofsted to require special measures will still receive structural…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionOur Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is a whole package of measures that will not only deliver landmark reforms to child safeguarding, but unleash the ability of all schools…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionMy hon. Friend puts it very well. We absolutely need to be laser-focused on schools that have consistently underperformed but have not received the support, help or intervention…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionI thank my hon. Friend for his service, which is hugely important. We often do not recognise enough the work that governors undertake and the important role they play in our…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionWe expect the range of structural interventions to continue as currently, at least for the next 12 months, because we will continue to intervene where schools are causing concern…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionMy hon. Friend spoke to my heart as he referenced areas of his constituency that I represented in this place for 14 years from 2010. He went to an excellent school in the…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionI will happily meet my hon. Friend. I know she is committed to securing better outcomes for the schools and children in her area. We are making these reforms so that we can go…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionMy hon. Friend has very much diagnosed the challenge. We have a persistently and stubbornly high disadvantage gap, where we know that children are leaving primary school without…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionChildren get only one childhood, so it matters deeply that they get to go to a great school while they are still children, which is why we are determined to deliver faster…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionI absolutely recognise the challenges that my hon. Friend sets out. Many schools right across the system, whether local authority maintained or academies, face similar challenges.…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionMy hon. Friend is a powerful advocate for the children in her area, and she is absolutely right to champion better outcomes. We know that the journey towards not achieving the…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionThe hon. Lady raises an important point and we absolutely want to hear from schools about how issues like inclusion can be successfully measured and incentivised and held…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionI thank my hon. Friend for that question, and I commend him for his experience in the classroom, which is clearly valuable. We always want to encourage more teachers. Indeed, the…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionI encourage those headteachers to feed back to Ofsted as part of the consultation process. Obviously, it is Ofsted’s consultation process. It determines the mechanisms by which it…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionMy hon. Friend advocates very powerfully for the families in his area who have been struggling with a SEND system that is clearly in need of reform. The changes that Ofsted and…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionI will answer the right hon. Gentleman’s three questions in reverse order. On the first, I think parents are perfectly capable of understanding a more complex report card than one…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionMy hon. Friend makes an important point, and I will take it away and look at it.03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionThe determination of the report cards is within Ofsted’s remit. It has launched its consultation. The right hon. Gentleman is invited to contribute to the consultation, and I…03 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to focus on that issue. Improving the SEND system is clearly a focal point for delivering on our opportunity mission to break the link between…03 Feb 2025