Posts Tagged “children”
Nick Clegg’s Letter from the Leader: “Ignore the papers, here’s the real truth about the Coalition’s plans for childcare”
by Stephen Tall on February 3, 2013
The latest letter from Nick Clegg to party supporters takes us behind the scenes of the Coalition’s negotiations over how best to help families with the cost of childcare. He dismisses newspaper gossip of splits in the ‘Quad’ as “total nonsense”, before setting out the principles that have guided their decision-making — focusing help on [...]
Nick Clegg delivers radical reforms to shared parental leave
by Stephen Tall on November 13, 2012
As LibDemVoice reported today… You can read Nick’s speech in full here. Send to Kindle
The 446 state schools where poorer children perform better than average
by Stephen Tall on May 12, 2012
One of the biggest questions in education is the extent to which schools can make a difference to the lives of the children they teach. Put more fatalistically, if you’re born poor does that mean you will perform poorly at (…)

