Tell me all about the education bill then. I won't if that's OK.
The stuff on trust schools, admissions code and the one-year turnaround time for failing schools will have been debated endlessly by the time you get this. You can, along with Labour Party backbenchers, make your own minds up. I'll concentrate on the key clause for those involved in informal education, which is clause six.
So does it define informal education? No. Neither this clause nor any other in the bill mentions youth work or youth services by name, nor any such construction as informal personal and social development. Nevertheless this is the latest development in the statutory basis for such work. Some people may be disappointed, but there is a case to be made for seeing this as an improvement.
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