Member

As I said last week on the matter of teacher recruitment and qualifications, all the Government are doing with the Bill is making it harder in the areas of deprivation. We already have to cope with a vicious cycle of poor education in these places. Deprived areas have more poor schools with low attainment, and they have a higher proportion of permanent exclusions. Indeed, according to the IPPR, a think tank, children on free school meals are five times more likely to be permanently excluded. How will the Bill as it is currently worded, with its admissions changes, help those children?