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...

Ed Balls is a weapons-grade fucking cunt: Schools are being given advice on how to prevent pupils becoming drawn to violent extremism and terrorism. Guidelines are being made available to primary and secondary schools in England to help them discuss the issues surrounding extremist views.WHAT THE FUCK???!!? Schools Secretary Ed Balls said schools could play a "key role" in getting young people to ...

Ed Balls has promised to take action against faith schools that pursue covert selection at the Fabian Society question time fringe debate. According to the Fabians' own report on the debate: "Schools secretary Ed Balls pledged to put faith schools...

Underperforming schools face a raft of new "interventionist" measures to bring them up to scratch Ed Balls the Schools Secretary will announce this week.

Ed Balls, schools secretary, has watered down contentious plans to force people working with children to undergo criminal records checks, following an outcry led by children's authors who visit schools

Ed Balls, Labour’s Schools Secretary responding to comments from the Conservative leader of Kent County Council and Conservative Cabinet Member for schools in Hampshire

Community cohesion and forging a British-Islamic identity are our best weapons against terrorism - and it starts at school, says Ed Balls

Ed Balls, the children's secretary, yesterday ducked the key issue of whether child protection services were adequately funded, as he gave the government's response to the Baby P abuse scandal. Although he committed £58m to plans for recruiting more top-quality social workers in England, Balls did not respond to a proposal that child protection should get a ring-fenced budget that ...

As Co-operative Party Conference kicks off today in Westminster Central Hall, Patrick Wintour in the Guardian trails the announcement that Ed Balls will make later about co-operative trust schools:Ed Balls, the schools secretary and only member of the Co-operative Party in the cabinet*, will today propose that 100 schools over the next two years become co-operative trust schools owned and controll...

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, is today urging people to take a long hard look at the Tories plans for schools. He is challenging the Tories to come clean on how they will pay for their two flagship schools policies &# new ‘free market’ schools and a national ‘pupil premium’. Earlier today, Ed Balls set out to Parl...