Tory leadership contenders must reverse school cuts
Liberal Democrat Education spokesperson Layla Moran will today [22 June] use a speech at the ‘Together for Education Rally’ in Westminster to call on the…
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Every child deserves to go to a great, local school
The Liberal Democrats have called for local councils to be given back control of the school admissions process following new data released today by the Department for Education…
Lib Dems slam Tory school cuts as a ‘political choice’ at NAHT Conference
Liberal Democrat Education Spokesperson Layla Moran made a speech to the NAHT Conference in Telford, slamming the Conservative government’s school funding cuts by stating they were a “a political…
High-stakes testing culture pushing children out of school
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) report published today (18 Apr) found that 50,000 pupils who took their GCSEs in 2017 were removed from the school…
Two-thirds of secondary school head teachers have had to cut teaching staff to save money
School staff cuts a ‘tragedy’ Research published today (18 Apr) by educational charity Sutton Trust has revealed that 69% of secondary school heads have had to…
Councils inexcusably supporting unregistered schools
Today, Ofsted has announced that it has investigated over 500 unregistered schools since 2016. It revealed that some councils had been paying to place their…
No woman should miss out on education because of period poverty
Reports in The Independent this morning that Daisy Wakefield, a student at the Univeristy of the West of England spent her entire student loan on sanitary products to…
SEND funding crisis a moral failure of Government
Responding to today’s report by IPPR North, revealing that the Government has cut SEND funding per pupil by 17% over the last four years, Liberal…
Tories must do more to act on period poverty in schools
Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran has warned the Conservatives “must act without delay” in tackling period poverty after securing assurances that the Government was “considering…
The Shameful Neglect of Adult Learners is Extremely Detrimental to Both Individuals and Society
Launch of Independent Commission on Lifelong Learning. When it comes to education, for too long there has been an almost exclusive focus, in terms of…