Labour’s national policy forum (NPF) report 2013 for this year’s party conference is now available for all to read. Education is dealt with in the section devoted to the annual report of the Education and Child Care Commission on pages 70 to 76 and in a policy paper on childcare on pages 78 to 80. The discussion of schools and 16-19 training and education is found in the annual report and it is that section which is considered below.
The policy substance in this Report of just over 3000 words is slender. It can be summarised as follows:
- Labour’s approach to schools is based on “three key themes: Freedom, Devolution and Collaboration”
- Labour would give all (state supported) schools the same freedoms such as freedom over the curriculum
- Where freedoms are damaging they will be removed Continue reading
