Caroline Voaden: “We rely on teachers to educate our children, the least we can do is make sure they want to come back after the summer.”

Frankly, it’s a scandal that children across the country are being let down by a focus of consecutive governments on London and it has to change. Our children deserve better.

As Lucy Powell enters her first term as education secretary the Liberal Democrats are calling for her first act to be to introduce an emergency package of 'back to school' measures to face this crisis head on.