Education is in crisis. Yes, outstanding schools teach a minority of children where parents can pay for independent education or live in the catchment of an excellent state school; but alongside the betrayal of countless other children especially those with disability or disadvantage whose parents can’t.
The question above is one I ask in my book The British Betrayal of Childhood. In it, I describe a dismal litany:
The uncomfortable reality is that we have some of the worst outcomes overall for children in the developed world, not just for education but across health, social care, youth justice and poverty.
The exam question is “why”? A question that politicians are unwilling to answer. My answer is four-fold.
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