4th July - Party election manifestos

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Sir Kevan Collins will be appointed as Labour’s school standards adviser if Labour got into power. So what are Labour's priorities?

Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson stated that; 'our first step of recruiting 6,500 (teachers?) is just the beginning of our plan for schools that will enable children to seize all the opportunities the future holds'.

In the Conservative Education Manifesto 2024 The Conservatives have pledged to protect “day-to-day schools spending in real-terms per pupil” and legislate to ban mobile phones from classrooms if they win the election.

The Reform party manifesto makes interesting reading.

The Liberal Democatic party manifesto provides some new ways forward. 'The party’s manifesto also commits to reform Ofsted, curriculum and assessment, and the expansion of extra-curricular activities and extension of free school meals and the pupil premium'.

The Green party has pledged in its manifesto to include; 'plans to spend almost £14 billion more on education, scrap “formal testing” in secondary schools, abolish Ofsted and put all academies under council “control”.

The Guardian Newspaper provides a useful roundup of all the education, health and social care manifestos