Damian asks an Urgent Question on OfStEd reforms

Damian raised an Urgent Question today in response to the Government's proposed reforms to OfStEd.

Damian said: 

"I’m grateful to the Speaker for granting me an Urgent Question on behalf of the Opposition to the Government on their changes to reporting OfStEd grades and eroding the improvement system we put in place through academy trusts. I welcome OfStEd’s own reforms that have come out of their ‘Big Listen’, initiated when we were in government and which we supported — but I worry about the other changes the Government is now pursuing."

 

Clip courtesy of Parliament TV.

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