Member

The greatest regret for me, as someone who has been heavily involved in education, is that there was a very bad philosophy of taking education away from the support and encouragement of local authorities. There was the suggestion that they were not delivering well, so we created more and more academies in the hope that they would do well. Education needs to return to local places, and Amendments 198, 199 and 230 are trying to reorganise our education system so that it not only imparts knowledge but draws out knowledge from every child. When that happens, schools will thrive.