She said: "If we wish to use all the great talent in our country it is vital that we offer opportunities and the chance to build character and resilience to all."
Morgan has been an advocate of character education since her time as Education Secretary from 2014-16. She commissioned ground-breaking research to test what character education programmes worked best in schools and launched a £3.5m character grant programme that she said would make the UK a global leader in teaching character and resilience. The scheme was scrapped in 2017 by Morgan's immediate successor Justine Greening. However, Greening's successor Damian Hinds shared Morgan's enthusiasm for the agenda, to the extent that he established an advisory board for character education and set out five foundations for building character.
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