Will my hon. Friend put it on record that it was in fact the Conservative party that refused to allow the provisions on PSHE—or life skills as I prefer to call it—to be included in the Bill? Further, does he agree that the people who will suffer from basic emotional and social skills not being in the curriculum will not be those who go to expensive private schools, or even high attaining schools, but pupils in constituencies such as mine—poorer places where generally there is not high educational achievement? They are the people who most need this to be in the national curriculum, rather than merely being something that it is nice to have. Will my hon. Friend put on record who is responsible for this not being in the Bill?
Children, Schools and Families Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Graham Allen
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 8 April 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Children, Schools and Families Bill.
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