This is the full text of the speech to the Labour Party conference today by Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families: Conference, there are over 79,000 social workers in our country today. Doing a job which can be tough and sometimes dangerous but which saves lives and makes a huge difference to thousands of families. And unlike teachers or nurses, fire fighters and polic...
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LabourMatters on 30th Sep 2009 (via labourmatters.com)
Labour's Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls' speech to the 2009 Labour Party Annual Conference: Conference, there are over 79,000 social workers in our country today. Doing a job which can be tough and sometimes dangerous - but which saves lives and makes a huge difference to thousands of families. And unlike teachers or nurses, fire fighters and police offic...
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LabourParty on 30th Sep 2009 (via labour.org.uk)
Spending time on the frontline is what matters, children's secretary tells profession Child protection managers should spend less time in offices and more time supporting overworked social workers on the frontline, the children's secretary Ed Balls said today. Many social workers dealing with complex child abuse cases in England were too inexperienced and it was unacceptable for them not...
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Guardian on 6th Mar 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
Ed Balls MP, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, speaking to Labour Party Conference today, said: Conference Today - all across our country - millions of children are going to school no longer putting up with leaking roofs or peeling walls… …but instead going to one of the 4,000 brand new or fully refurbished schools built in the last thirteen years by our Labour government. So...
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LabourMatters on 29th Sep 2010 (via labourmatters.com)
The school attended by the children of Ed Balls the Schools Secretary and his wife Yvette Cooper the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has been granted two head teachers.
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Telegraph on 22nd Oct 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Today’s Guardian reports that Labour’s schools secretary Ed Balls is seriously considering a possible ban on British National Party members working as teachers in schools: A source close to the schools secretary, Ed Balls, said there had been several meetings on the issue with teaching unions which are lobbying for a change in teachers’ contracts to
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 22nd Jun 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
Ed Balls MP, Labour's Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, has set out new measures Labour is taking to give every child a fair chance in life: - Building on our work to tackle bullying, Ed Balls said that all incidents of bullying should be properly recorded in every school. Schools will also record all incidents of verbal or physical attacks on teachers. - Together with La...
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LabourParty on 3rd Oct 2008 (via labour.org.uk)
Children's Secretary Ed Balls has spoken of his hope of some good coming out of the tragedy of Baby Peter as he unveiled sweeping Government reforms in a bid to transform the demoralised social work profession.
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Telegraph on 1st Dec 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Ed Balls, the Children's Secretary, has committed to banning extremist teachers from Britain's schools in the wake of a row over Hizb-ut-Tahrir, the Islamist group.
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Telegraph on 30th Nov 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The Baby P scandal has prompted Children's Secretary Ed Balls to order social services bosses in charge of protecting children to retrain.
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Telegraph on 9th Jan 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Has the Secretary of State for Children already voted for Gordon? Ed Balls visited Eureka! today with Linda Riordan, PPC for Halifax and launched the Eureka! independent ‘State of Play' by casting his ballot for the head of state. "State of Play is a great way to engage children," Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families said. "Eureka! has been a pioneer in using ...
