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Interview: Andy Burnham, shadow education secretary

    Features
  • Monday, October 25, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Andy Burnham is still in migration phase, getting to grips with the role of shadow education secretary after moving from his previous brief in government on health. But the enthusiasm he holds for his new post is clear.

Interview: Baroness Beverley Hughes, Labour peer

Beverley Hughes, the former children's minister who was awarded a peerage in May, is preparing to get stuck into her new role in the House of Lords, in which she says her old brief will be her top priority.

Rebel with a cause

Lauren Higgs talks to David Simmonds, chair of the LGA's children and young people board

Interview: John Freeman, Raising Expectations Action Programme - Councils' learning mentor

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 17, 2009
  • | CYP Now
"The biggest single set of challenges that local authorities have faced for 30 years." That's how John Freeman describes the 7bn transfer of funding from the Learning and Skills Council to local authorities in 2010. It will see local authorities take responsibility for commissioning learning for 16 to 19 year olds and sets the scene for raising the school leaving age to 18 by 2015.

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