This is simply unacceptable. Children are transferring into the state sector as a result of government policy, yet there is no plan to ensure continuity of education - even when some will be just weeks from exams. It is a total dereliction of duty.

Agreed! @bphillipsonMP is a fanatic and clearly hates independent schools and the families that use them. She didn’t answer the question!

I can just see the compensation claims for this Government's punishment of the kids.

Can’t even answer the question asked. Cloth eared, what is she as minister putting in place. The independent schools have no obligation to put any transition plan in place. You @bphillipsonMP and @UKLabour put this policy in place. You are responsible!

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@bphillipsonMP that wasn't an answer to the question that was asked! Your colleague was asking about children that are having to move to state sector as a result of your policy. Not those left behind in PS

Tetchy response. She knows it’s wrong.

She’s hanging these children out to dry in the most educationally significant year of their young lives. I hope they seek compensation for the damage to their mental health and future prosperity.

Yes it is a total dereliction of duty! How can she wash her hands of these children? All the nonsense about ‘breaking down barriers to opportunity!” Hardly! She’s putting a gigantic Berlin sized wall in-front of these kids exam grades! 🤷‍♀️ @MrsA @IsabelPat1886 @drcarolinej

I hope someone sues them.

@dshensmith That is not an answer to the question asked. Children are being disrupted at the worst possible time in all of their schooling, mid year, for some, JUST before their GCSE final push. Appalling and totally unecessary. @bphillipsonMP @Keir_Starmer @KemiBadenoch @Nigel_Farage

She’s the Secretary of State for Education and yet she refuses to accept any responsibility for the disruption caused to children displaced as a direct result of Government policy. It’s shocking she is getting away with this.