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Starmer vows to address north-south education divide ahead of debate on Bill

  • The Prime Minister aims to eliminate the North-South divide in education, stating that every child deserves equal life chances regardless of their background or location.
  • The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill will introduce tougher regulations for teachers and create a register for home-schooled children to prevent tragic cases like Sara Sharif's.
  • The bill has faced criticism from the Tories, who called it 'educational vandalism,' arguing it undermines the standards achieved by academies and free schools.
  • Shadow Education Secretary Laura Trott expressed concerns that the bill would reduce accountability for failing schools and limit the freedoms necessary to improve pupil outcomes.
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Conservative minister calls on Labour MPs to back vote for grooming gangs inquiry

Shadow Education Secretary Laura Trott has taken aim at Labour hypocrisy after Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips became the subject of tech billionaire Elon Musk's latest criticisms.As Labour face mounting pressure to tackle historic child abuse amid the grooming gangs scandal, Trott warned that all politicians should be "very careful" about the "language they use".FULL STORY HERE.

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How Elon Musk’s Intense Interest In A UK Grooming Gang Scandal Is Being Driven By Disruptive Right-Wing Network GB News

Elon Musk has been tweeting incessantly for days about a grooming gang scandal that is setting the political weather in Britain, but the origins of how it came onto the radar of the world’s richest man can be traced back a decade. Charlie Peters, a student about to embark on a philosophy masters at The University of Edinburgh, took the time to leaf through a 159-page report on child exploitation in Rotherham, a town in the north of England. He…

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Musk’s Phony War on Grooming Gangs

(Composite / Photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock)OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS, Elon Musk has been helping fuel a ragestorm on X about “grooming gangs” in the United Kingdom, a story that first made news in the small town of Rotherham in the early 2010s and recently resurfaced with the publication of shocking excerpts from some of the cases. Among other things, Musk has accused a junior Labour minister, Jess Phillips, of being a “genocidal rape apologis…

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Starmer vows to address north-south education divide ahead of debate on Bill

In his first interview of the year, the Prime Minister said he was very concerned about the ‘disparity’ between schools in the north and south.

·London, United Kingdom
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Schools bill is act of vandalism for education, claim Tories

The new bill could impose national pay scales on all state schools and rip up academy freedoms that have led to excellence, say critics

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Daily MirrorDaily Mirror

Starmer vows to wipe out North-South divide in schools with no child left behind

In his first interview of the year, Prime Minister Keir Stamer vowed no child in the North will be left behind as he set his sights on inequalities plaguing schools

·London, United Kingdom
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Daily Mirror broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 7, 2025.
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