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...

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 ...

Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families is a hate figure for Tories, says Neil Tweedie.

Children's secretary tells inspectors to rate schools on how well their most vulnerable pupils are doing The children's secretary Ed Balls will today order plans to be drawn up for Ofsted to crack down on schools that are failing children with special educational needs (SEN), placing the issue at the heart of the government's programme to improve standards. Under the proposals, insp...

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

Schools will be forced to bear the brunt of government spending cuts if the Conservatives win power at the general election, Children's Secretary Ed Balls will claim today.

Labour's Children's Secretary Ed Balls is today calling on the Conservative Party to drop their plans to cut the budget for children's services by £300m from April and to support the ContactPoint database which was a key recommendation of the Victoria Climbie inquiry. Conservative spending plans would see the non-schools budget of the Department for Children, Schools and Famil...

Ed Balls MP, Labour's Schools Secretary, will today challenge the Conservatives to come clean on which new schools face the axe under their planned cuts to Labour's school building programme. Ed Balls said: "Today's announcement is good news for parents, teachers and pupils in local authorities across the country. "All this would be put at risk by Conservative plans to slash the sch...

The new ministerial team at the Department for Children, Schools and Families is as follows: Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families - Ed Balls Minister of State for Schools and Learners - Jim Knight Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families - Beverley...

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...