Birmingham Schools

Alun Cairns Excerpts
Monday 9th June 2014

(10 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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The hon. Gentleman makes a very important point. We are seeing a level of collaboration between schools—through teaching school alliances, academy chains and informal partnerships—that is a very powerful driver of improved standards. It ensures that individual teachers, who may have concerns about what is happening in their own school, have access to a wider network of professionals who can help them to deal with the challenges they face.

Alun Cairns Portrait Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan) (Con)
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Extremism in schools has, sadly, been going on for more than a decade. Will the Secretary of State reassure the House that Peter Clarke will have unfettered access to all paperwork going back over that period?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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I will do everything in my power—I hope every agency will—to help Peter Clarke in his job.