These can include having special educational needs, living on a lower income, being in public care, or serving time in the youth justice system. The most responsive, child-centred schools address the needs of these children through both welfare and education interventions. We want all schools and academies to emulate the best.
It is reassuring that the importance of education continues in the coalition government's prioritisation of teaching and learning. But the framework within which this is meant to happen is very different: a questionable claim that the government intends to lead less from the centre, a potential reduction in accountability through a relaxed inspection regime, an adoption of zero-tolerance rhetoric when discussing pupil behaviour and a possible return to a traditional academic curriculum.
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