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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Suella Braverman Excerpts
Monday 20th January 2020

(4 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Gibb Portrait Nick Gibb
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The hon. Member will be aware of the review of children in need. It highlights the importance of schools being aware of those children who are known to social workers and who have particular problems so that we can make sure that they get pastoral support in school and that expectations remain as high for them as for other pupils in the school.

Suella Braverman Portrait Suella Braverman (Fareham) (Con)
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Free schools have been a huge success—I mention Michaela Community School, which I co-founded and chaired, and which I know the Ministers are familiar with—but too many parts of the country are without access to one. What plans do the Government have for increasing the number of free schools and has the Minister read my recent report “Fight for Free Schools”, published with the Centre for Policy Studies, which has some useful ideas for how to achieve to that?