Schools: Volunteer Reading Helpers Debate
Full Debate: Read Full DebateBaroness Evans of Bowes Park
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(7 years, 7 months ago)
Lords ChamberMy Lords, we will hear from the UKIP representative.
My Lords, I am more than usually grateful. Are the Government confident that our teacher training—which, after all, underlies our whole education system, at primary school and so on—is doing enough to teach future teachers to teach children how to read? For instance, can the Government confirm that the phonic method is now actively promoted, instead of being eschewed, as it was for many years?