Children, Schools and Families Bill

With a heavy heart, in order to secure provisions on special educational needs and alternative provision, we had to drop some clauses, which I think had broad support out there, particularly the guarantee that children falling behind in English and maths would get one-to-one tuition. Frankly, I think that parents and teachers will be astonished at the insistence of the Conservative party and others that the provision be dropped. We have also had to postpone plans for changes to the primary curriculum, which had huge support among heads and teachers—moves to a curriculum based on the Rose review, with areas of learning that the vast majority of schools and teachers warmly welcomed.