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Daniel Zeichner

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Point of Order
Monday 12th June 2023

(1 year, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Claire Coutinho Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Claire Coutinho)
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The work of teaching assistants is incredibly important to the SEND arena. We have taken education funding to real-term historic highs for mainstream education and we have increased the high-needs block by more than 50%.

Daniel Zeichner Portrait Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge) (Lab)
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T6. Principals of sixth-form colleges across the country, such as Yolanda Botham at the excellent Long Road College in Cambridge, are warning that the Government’s continuing plans to scrap many of the BTEC qualifications risk real harm to their students. Will the Government listen to those people and to the Sixth Form Colleges Association and protect student choice?

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