Michael Gove, the shadow children's secreta - sorry shadow SCHOOLS secretary - devoted his conference speech this morning to raising school standards, creating more academies and curtailing Ofsted's remit to inspecting purely on attainment rather than a school's record in promoting children's welfare and wellbeing. Barely a word on early years, child protection, youth work, you know more general CHILDREN'S issues?
So as he sauntered into the press centre fresh from his speech to conference, I nabbed him for a few precious seconds. Given the content of his speech, I asked, could we assume the Conservatives would reinstate a Department of Education in power and would children's issues contrinue to have a government department and a presence at the Cabinet?
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