Social injustice is endemic”. Not necessarily my own views, but certainly those of Alan Milburn MP, who was the chair of the government’s own Social Mobility Commission until he and his entire team resigned on December 3.
In an interview on the same day, Conservative MP Robert Halfon, chair of Parliament’s Education Select Committee, identified the relative paucity of outcomes for children coming from disadvantaged homes. For teachers and school leaders, addressing this burning platform is the moral issue that brought many of us into education.
Also on December 3, secretary of state for health, Jeremy Hunt, announced additional funding for perhaps the most disadvantaged children within that bracket: those with mental health issues.
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