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Bridget Phillipson will speak alongside Dame Rachel de Souza at the commissioner’s inaugural Festival Of Childhood: Our Future, Our Voice. The Education Secretary is to call for more men to ...

Bridget Phillipson, in a speech in London on Thursday, will say she wants more men in the classroom "teaching, guiding, leading" boys. Echoing a similar sentiment from Sir Gareth Southgate last month, ...

Today Dame Rachel will address the inaugural Festival Of Childhood alongside Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, where she is expected to say that children just ‘want to be listened to’.

The Education Secretary will today say the behaviour and development of boys is the “defining issue of our time”. At a speech at the Children’s Commissioner’s inaugural Festival of ...

Fans of Good Morning Britain bashed Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson over a "pathetic" answer this morning. The minister was welcomed on to the ITV breakfast show as hosts Ed Balls and ...

Bridget Phillipson says the problem has become an “endemic” issue in schools and that “if children aren’t in school, if they’re not in their classroom then they can’t learn”.

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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says negotiations are still underway with the US over an economic deal but says the Government will take a 'calm and pragmatic approach' to the worldwide ...