The new Labour government have announced a series of new bills and initiatives – this post on the DfE website summarises what’s there for education, which includes:
- Children’s Wellbeing Bill:
- Making sure there are free breakfast clubs in every primary school;
- Limiting the number of branded uniform items that a school can require, to bring down costs for parents;
- Requiring local authorities to have and maintain Children Not in School registers and provide support to home-educating parents;
- Giving Ofsted more powers to investigate unregistered schools and tackle patterns of poor care in children’s homes.
- Skills England Bill:
- Bring together businesses, providers, unions and other bodies to try to boost skills training;
- Simplify the skills system by transferring responsibilities from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) to a new Skills England organisation.
The NGA have commented on this and you can read their response here. Whilst they see these measures as positive, they pioint out that more needs to be regarding recruiting and keeping schools governors, and boosting school finances.
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