Nick Clegg has completed his first Liberal Democrat conference as leader. The delegates were there; his wife was there and leading figures from the youth sector were there. But where were the new policies on children and young people?
The headline grabber was the proposal from David Laws, the party's spokesman on children, schools and families, to slim down the National Curriculum. But the party's press office confirms this policy has been announced before.
Laws opposes the centralisation of the education system and wants the National Curriculum and SATs exams binned. "We should sweep away the quangos and establish an independent educational standards authority, to hold all schools and local authorities to account," he says. "We need an education system which delivers not just freedom for schools, but real choice for parents and real opportunity for every child."
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