Labour's Bridget Phillipson has encouraged the education secretary Gillian Keegan to take responsibility for crumbling school buildings.
The shadow education secretary told the Commons: "What an utter shambles. The defining image of 13 years of Conservative government: children cowering under steel props to stop the ceiling falling in on their heads.” Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
The shadow education secretary told the Commons: "What an utter shambles. The defining image of 13 years of Conservative government: children cowering under steel props to stop the ceiling falling in on their heads.” Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 safety of our children and staff in schools today should be our highest priority. While
00:04 the voices of children are rarely heard in this place, it is their welfare, their hopes
00:09 and their fears that should be uppermost in our minds today. Secondly, the mark and measure
00:16 of each of us as politicians is our willingness to take and to accept responsibility—collective
00:23 responsibility, not just for our own actions but for those of the Governments in which
00:28 we serve. And this week, as the school year begins, there is an awful lot of responsibility
00:35 for Ministers to take. What an utter shambles. The defining image of 13 years of Conservative
00:45 Government, children cowering under steel props to stop the ceiling falling in on their
00:51 heads. Thirteen years into a Conservative Government and the public realm is literally
00:57 crumbling around the next generation. The Education Secretary said this morning that,
01:03 in her view, it is not the job of her Department to ensure the safety of our children's schools,
01:09 that she was doing a good job. Schools are literally at risk of collapse. She is the
01:15 Education Secretary. Whose responsibility does she think it is then? This is the tragic
01:21 endgame of the sticking-plaster politics of the last 13 years, and children have been
01:27 failed by this Conservative Government. Who in this Government, in the months ahead, will
01:33 take some responsibility for sorting out the chaos our children face?
01:37 Yeah!