Clause 50 - Attendance targets
Education Bill
4:15 pm
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight, Conservative)
I welcome the clause. Once again the Government are following in my footsteps. I will give hon. Members the evidence for that. Pupils cannot be taught if they are not in school. That is perhaps the most obvious statement that one can make but it is one that the previous Administration did not seem to understand. They did not seem to understand that the first condition of getting a child taught is for him to be sitting in a class in front of a teacher.
When the London borough of Southwark was found to be failing and I was pleased to help advise it on how to privatise the management of that education authority—