Lucy Powell: “The whole of government machinery can work in service of the agenda and the vision that the Labour government is setting…”

The idea that academic and technical education are rivals competing for status belongs in the past.

They have to take some responsibility for creating … a system that has left over a million young people now not in education, training or employment. The current approach has left too many behind.

The treadmill of failure of GCSE English and maths.

The one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn’t suit all children. For some it’s become a straitjacket. A straitjacket that has left too many being branded a failure – again and again – instead of being able to realise their potential.