Labour will only win the next election if we can show people that we’re on their side. And what better policy to do this than universal free school meals, which both help hard-pressed families and improve children’s health and learning.test
Free schools meals are failing to reach many of those who need them most in Wales.
Don’t believe the spin on free schools and grammars
The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Federation scandal exposes Labour’s lack of policy on academies and free schools.
Free schools are currently operating as an expensive ‘unguided missile’ in the school system with little rhyme or reason as to where they are permitted.
Two of the Big Society’s key reforms, police commissioners and free schools, could tear apart our communities, writes the Runnymede Trusts’s Kamaljeet Gill.
Michael Gove has invited existing schools to become academies. But his new announcement explains nothing about the funding gaps for free schools and the pupil premium.
Ed Balls challenges Michael Gove on yesterday’s Newsnight to reveal how he will pay for his “free schools” & pupil premium; Gove responds with boorish insults.
Is another unwelcome American import coming to Britain, where the political Right often look to US counterparts for ideological inspiration?
From missed opportunities to ‘Tory hot air’, trade unions weigh in on the Spring Budget announcements
