Public Services
Labour warns that another Tory government would threaten 1,000 Sure Start centres
The beleaguered service cannot take another four years of closures and reduced opening hours
Tristram Hunt
Education ministers employ a ‘light touch’ when overseeing schools
Lack of clear guidelines means there are insufficient interventions in schools with major problems
Labour’s policies for improving schools seem conspicuously absent
Labour needs to set out a clear vision for dealing with the problems described by Ofsted.
Tristram Hunt’s Hippocratic oath: a bad policy from a weak shadow education secretary
Attention is now focused on the fallout from Hunt’s policy rather than where it should be - on coalition education policy.
How the coalition is privatising state education
Never mind the future threat of for-profit schools, privatisation of English state schools is already underway.
What should Labour be saying on free schools?
Data to be released next week looks set to reignite questions over Labour's education policy.