Since then, with occasional forays into social care – Munro, adoption – he has focused almost exclusively on education. He has asserted endlessly that academies are the solution to any educational problem you could imagine.
This assertion has always been questionable, while those who question it suffer being labelled as die-hard refuseniks with vested interests in the status quo.
This heavy emphasis on education has been very disappointing to those working to bring together education, social care, health, youth justice and other services for children and young people.
Now, with little public fanfare, Gove has engaged strongly with the social care agenda. His speech last week to the Institute for Public Policy Research was challenging, direct and personal, and at nearly 8,000 words it was one of the longest he has given. Reading it, I was reminded of my own learning – emotional as well as intellectual – about children’s social care and the reality of social workers’ professional activities.
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