 Please welcome the Secretary of State for Education galaxy modest house and his ministerial team. Are you sitting comfortably friend of all the work we've done together as a party and indeed a nation over the last 12 years in my view, the work of which we should be most proud is the work we've done in education. ydych chi'n gweld, mae'r ystod o gweithio a'r cyfnod. Yn ymgyrch gweithio 10 miliwn cyd-dynion, ydych chi'n 8 miliwn yn y gwybod o'r ystod o'r ysgol. Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Yn y llyfrosu, ydych chi'n gweithio'n 82% o'r cyd-dynion yma sy'n cyd-dynion yn ychydig yn gystafol i 91% i 7%. Mae'n ymheliadau gael gwrthau a'r 8 oed yn y Llyfrosu Lleodag i'r gw Candy Teimladol, y gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio ymhell. Yng nghymru mae'r gweithio. Yn jwg 10 mlynedd yn yw unrhyw enw yn y number 1 o eich pe rap. Rwy'n un 60% o ceisbeth y hydrolyniad. Mae'n gweithio'n cyd-dynion, mae'r 80% o'r cyd-dynion. Mae'r hyn sy'n cyd-dynion i'r 50%. Mae'n 80%. Mae'n dod yn gweithio'r gweithio. ac wedi'u cyfnodd, mae'n cyfnodd ddych chi'n lleidio'r unig yn ysgolio yma yn y ddechau. A rydym yn ymgyrchio'r gwahag fyddo i gyfnodd Rydym yn ymddangos gyfnodd. Mae'r hyn o gyfnodd arloedd cyfnodd ac mae'r afu'r sector rydym yn ymgyrch ysgolio'i cyffredinol pan oedd o'r ffordd mwy ffrade. Felly mae'r ffordd yn siŵn ymddangos yng nghymru, yng Nghymru yw'r gweithio a'r sgwrs yma, ond mae'r gweithio yn ddigon i'r ffordd yma, ond mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae'n ddweud y maen nhw ymlaen, mae'r gwahau ffrancwys sy'n gwybod o'r UK, o'r Llyfr Gweithwys. felly mae'r ystyried yn cael ei wneud i gael i'r hyffordd cael eu ddweud yma. Cymru'n ddweud yma gael ei myfasur. Mae'n ffasur maen nhw, mae'n mynd i i'ch wedi'i bod yn cael ei ffasur o gydagolol a'r cyllidau. Mae'n ddweud i'ch gweld iawn yn yr ysgol, oedden nhw, oedden nhw, oedden nhw, oedden nhw, oedden nhw, oedden nhw. Mae'n ddweud i'ch gael i'ch gweld iawn i'ch gweld iawn i'ch gweld iawn i'ch gweld iawn. saúde of the schools can achieve, and that means that we need to be much more front footed about talking to schools about what they can achieve. We've seen, as I said, vast progress in lots of schools, but there are still pockets that need our attention, and we need to reflect on the fact that there's nothing quite as persistent as people hanging onto me deacrity. Us finding it, challenging it, working with teachers, bringing all the schools up to the standard of the best, Eating will be a key part of our mission. Alongside that, the Prime Minister has asked us to play a big part in the growth agenda, and there are two key areas that we can do that. The first is on childcare. At the moment, we have a childcare system which is not really performing either for parents or indeed for providers. So over the coming weeks we'll be bringing forward new plans. Not to tinker with the system, but to provide really strong support for those parents iawn i bwysig, i bwysig, ac i bwysig i'r wych. Ond mae'n cyfrifysgolwyr i'r fan am ychydigol o'r ffordd o'r bwysig, i'n gwybod ar y peth yn fyddi'n amser yw. A ddim yma y ddweud yr ysgol yn y gweithio mewn arfer. Felly mae'n gweithio arni i'r scirfodd i'r syniad, mae'n rhaid i'n gweithio arniach, a Andrew wedyn yn ysgolwch yn ymddangos. Ond mae'n dweud i ddweud yn ysgolwch yr arniach, ond haf sy'n cyfrifio'r llyfr gyffredinol, awdfawr am y cyfrifio ar y diolun â blaen arall, ac mae'n cael rhai o'r prif er partial ar draws, rhaid o bwysig yn rhai o ddau o flynyddiadau yna fel llefau ac yn ychydig yn cael ei newid hynny a chyfyddiadau ydym yn ei gyfrifio ar gyfer ei hunain, i elemento'r gwrsau gwestwyll sydd wedi mawr yn wych yn ddweud ar gyfer HGV, fel hwnna i'r gwael aeth yn ei cyfrifio ar gyfer HGV a nad oed exacto'r gweithio gennych mewn cyntaf, ac yn unig yn ei ddoch. Felly mae gennym ni i'r rhaid i gyfnodd ar y golygu. Felly y 4 ar gyfer, mwy'n ei ddau'r lle, mae gennym ni i gael gweithio i'r iawn. Felly, ei wneud yn ymddangos cyfnodd ar gyfer, fel rwy'n gwneud yn ein bodi'r cyfrwysau oherwydd i'r eisteddau, Starhobson, Arthur Labinio Hughes, gennym ni'n rhaid i'r stori ddod o'r neglaed ac yw rhaid i'r cyfrwysau, sydd yn ymddangos a'r cyfrwysau, ..y'r cymdeithas o'r cyd-dyn nhw'n gweithio y system yn fwyaf. A dyma'r ffocvsau sy'n gweithio'n gweithio'n 80 o ddiogelion o'r llwynt yn ymhygr yno'r amgylchedd. A dyna'r ffarnio'n gweithio mewn ffrifnigaf yw'r cyfrifnig honno'n teimlo'n ffrifnigau'n gweithio. Yn oeddiwch, byddwn y cyfrifnigau, haf mwy o'r cyffredin, dyma'r cyfrifnigau o'r cyfrifnigau sy'n gweithio'n gweithio hefyd. Ond yn ymddangos eu cynnig iawn i wneud yw'r gwaith i gael gwahau. A rydych i'n gyd yn cael eu gwybodaeth i gafodd. Mae'r gweithio cerddurau a gyd wedi gweithio'r gwaith a 12 oed yn cael eu cyffredinol sy'n mynd i'n rhan i'r gweithio a'r cynnu'r gwybod, mae'r gweithiau o ddweud, ymgyrch, ymgyrchu, ac ysgol, wedi'i gofeydd o hyn yn cael eu gweithio'r gwaith yn cael eu gwaith. Mae'r ffordd wrth yma yng nghymru a'i gael ei ddweud i ddechrau'n gweithio'r ffordd. Mae'n rhaid i'r wych yn ei ddechrau, mae'n ffordd yn ystod, mae'n cael cynnig ar y dyfodol gyda'r gweithio'n gweithio'r gweithio. A'i ddweud i'r gweithio arall, dyfodol, maen nhw'n ymgrifennu'n gweithio'n gweithio. a we'll all be dedicated to that because at the root of everything that we do, not just in our department, but everything we do at a government needs to be one simple question that we ask ourselves on a daily basis. And that question is, will the lives of our children be better than our lives? Whether it's housing or health, the fight against crime or the growth plan, they need growth the next generation. If we can answer that question positively, then we will have done our job. And I think over the last decade in education more than anything else, we can answer that question, will their lives be better than our lives, with an emphatic yes. So I hope those of you in the room who've been Governors, who are teachers, who've worked in education with young people, I hope you're proud of that work. I certainly am. And I hope you'll hear from us over the months and weeks to come and sing the praises of those who've done this work, of teachers, of parents, of schools, of multi-academy trusts, as we spread that success to every part of the nation. Now, to do that work, I'm very lucky to have a fantastic ministerial team. And we were given a choice today about whether to give a speech or whether to have a conversation. I thought it was most useful for you to meet this critical team who are going to be part of the story of success in the months to come. So I'm going to ask each of them to introduce themselves and talk a little bit about their agendas. So first of all, Kelly. Kelly Tolhurst, we were elected in 2015. Now, you and I have shared a passion for some time, not just about schools, but about child safeguarding, thinking about some of those really awful stories that we've seen and some of the frankly dreadful lives that vulnerable young people live and about what more we can do there to do to improve their lives. Now as you introduce yourself, could you just talk about where you think that could go, what more we could do? Yeah. Well, good afternoon, everybody, and thank you, Secretary of State. And as the Secretary of State is online, I'm Kelly Tolhurst. I'm the Member of Parliament for Rochester and Strud, and absolutely thrilled to be the Minister for the New Brief, Schools and Childhood. And this is a new brief that encompasses all elements of a child's chartered and a real focus, really trying to deliver on our mission to make sure that every child has a fulfilling chartered. Now, before I was elected as a Member of Parliament, I was a chairman of a small charity running a children's centre within my village actually where I live, where we were delivering support services to parents for nursery places, parenting courses, cooking courses, things like that. And that's really what started my passion, actually, about how are we able to develop policies and deliver services that really support our families, but also our children. So that's one of the key things that got me started, but also my sister's a social worker, and I've worked, we've looked after children, and it's one of the things that has really driven me in politics, ever since we got elected, to deliver for those young people actually that don't have a big voice, and that is our looked after children. And too often we are seeing poor outcomes for our looked after children, and that's something for me that is a strong driver to want to be in this role. And as the Secretary of State's asked the question about how do we protect children from harm, how do we avoid those absolutely horrific stories that we've all read, and no one can not be touched by that. And we're lucky under the leadership of our Secretary of State and our Prime Minister, we are really clear that we will be working tirelessly and quickly in order to deliver a response to the three big reviews that have taken place, the independent review into children's social care, the national panel review on the awful cases with Arthur and Star and the CMA report, and we will intend to do that, but also launch an implementation strategy. One thing that I can achieve while I'm in this role is changing outcomes for young people, particularly looked after children or particularly those children who are living in families that do need support and who don't get access to it, and I will be working tirelessly under the leadership of our Secretary of State to achieve that. A tighter, firmer safety net is exactly what we want now. Next on, newest recruit, Jonathan Gullis, known to many of you, but a former teacher. Jonathan, as you introduce yourself, do you want to talk a little bit about the work we're going to do with teachers, obviously critical partners in success, so many of them now doing a fantastic job out there for kids. You've lived it, you've seen it, perhaps as you introduce yourself and talk a little bit about that agenda. No, thank you, Kit, and welcome everyone and hello conference. I've said it so many times and my colleagues are probably bored of it, but I'm never bored of saying it that I was proud to spend eight and a half years as a teacher, both in London and in this great city of Birmingham. What really upsets certain fiscal opponents is that I was also a trade union representative for three and a half of those years as well, working as a shop steward hearing from our members as a member of the NSUWT. I wanted to quickly, before I get to what Kit has asked, is to explain why education is so important to me. My mum and dad are the beneficiary of a great education system, but in different ways. It was my mother who got into grammar school off the council state in London that gave her the opportunity to start her life. It was my dad who accessed the open university to get first in our family to ever get a degree. My mum and dad then worked incredibly hard and were able to achieve success that people in their local areas said wasn't possible, but it was education that reminded me time and again that made it possible. But the real reason I fell into teaching, because my dad was a teacher and I was one of those that promised I'd never follow my dad into the profession, but it was working with a young girl called Hannah at Mabel Pritchard School in Oxford whilst I was volunteering in my second and third year at university, a girl with autism. And she was at the local SEND school and I used to go and help on the school trips as we went out and to spend nearly two years with that young girl learning, trying to help her with her communication, teaching her very basic skills, but also teaching me about the importance of making sure that every child, regardless of their situation, should be cared for, should be loved and should have every opportunity available to them, made me realise that it was teaching that I wanted to go into and I was delighted to go into the profession and never did I think back in 2011 while I was doing my PGCE that I'd be sat on the stage as the Minister for School Standards I know maybe at the Institute of Education whether they're proud to have me as former alumni or not, I'm not sure, but I was proud to study there and learn a lot and I had some great tutors, Ben Hammond, Jeremy Hayward who were excellent at guiding me through that process and for me there's some really key priorities. There is the education investment areas that were announced those 50 plus areas that I know Diana worked incredibly hard on before I entered the department. We've got those 24 priority areas and it won't shock people that when Diana showed me her spreadsheet of those schools that have got two required improvements or inadequate that they overlap absolutely with the priority education investment areas and we're going to go in and rip up. I won't nick Diana's number because I know it's her favourite number to do but when you hear the number of kids in stuck in those schools it's unacceptable and we're not going to be ashamed to be interventionist to make sure those children have every opportunity because every day in a kid's life lost is another opportunity missed and we can't allow that to happen. We should be proud as a party on the national tutoring programme and we haven't done enough celebration of that. Over 2 million what I call opportunities given to kids and I was out across Sandwell and Wolverhampton only last week hearing from kids and from teachers who have benefitted from this system enabling those who are most disadvantaged to be able to catch up on their learning and what was most important to me was kids saying that they had confidence to now sit in the classroom and when they heard some of those things whether that be in science, maths or English, taught to them they felt that they belonged in the classroom and that's what we've done with the national tutoring programme so despite Labour's moaning and groaning actually we've invested over 5 billion pounds in catch up which is enormous and then finally as kids said about the teaching profession we've just accredited 179 teacher training providers and that's because we're unashamedly pro high quality expectations of the teacher training courses that we want making sure those teachers not only have a evidence-based curriculum for them to deliver to their pupils but the right mentoring that they desperately need because I was blessed at Black Fern School for Girls under Pete Paterson and Lola Blatch to get some world-class mentoring that meant that I felt confident entering the workforce but there'll be stuff that, like the early careers framework now which is a two-year course with mentoring and mentors trained as well we've got these MPQs I've got 60,000 fully funded MPQs I want every teacher to sign up and take and they've been robustly looked at evidence-based and evidence-led to make sure that we have teachers delivering in the classroom what we know works rather than what pedagogy that some in the past want to live on this idea that we'll deliver even though it continues to fail too many children in our classroom my role as kids said is to champion teachers I'll be unashamedly doing that but I'll also be working with our trade unions to make sure that we are out there looking at how we can improve recruitment and retention because we want every person to come into this workforce and see what a great profession it is very good we're very proud to have you Jonathan too it's great to have you on the team a longest standing member of the team Diana Baron who's been a member in the department for a bit now but very focused as Jonathan said on this issue of kids in two R.I. schools a falling number but one that we need to accelerate please give us your take on that number so lovely to be here with you all and as I have the enormous privilege of being the education minister in the House of Lords but as the Secretary of State said one of the things that I'm particularly focused on is those 700,000 children who are in schools that are failing and have failed for some time and it's a small number in the context of the whole as the Secretary of State said our predecessors have done an extraordinary job in turning around our education system but if you're a child in the secondary school in Noseley 50% of kids in Noseley are in failing schools that's just not okay so I'm relentlessly focused on trying to bring that number down in partnership with Jonathan and Kelly and there's a how there's what we want to do which is bring that number down radically over the next two years there's how we want to do it which is incentivising quality and educational outcomes for our children and there's why we want to do it and as Lord Harris who set up Harris Academies said you can make a mistake with your first job you can make a mistake with your second job your third job there's still a fourth job but you only get one education we want our children to have a great education very good and then last but not least Andrew Jenkins who many of you will know who's our skills minister looking at FE and HE now critical to our skills Andrew is the participation of employers we can lead a horse to water but we can't make it drink as he introduces himself perhaps you could talk about the work you're going to do to bring more businesses into offer apprenticeships because we're not sure of applicants but lots of young people want to do them we now need places Completely agree Secretary of State I'm very proud to be part of this whole skills agenda because to me we are future proving our economy so I think a big focus for me is actually looking at as you rightly said Secretary of State is engagement with employers and how can we make the process easier for employers especially if you're a one man band where you wear several hats it can't be a cumbersome process it's got to be easy and on top of that though what I'd like to focus on what are the emerging industries what are the skills needed for our economy of tomorrow as a lot of people might know I'm very pro-Brexit and I think this is an opportunity I want to see these homegrown skills and other things that I really want to focus on not only is access to education to me for too long the focus has always been on academia and I think that we've got to be proud of our academia the universities we have some of the greatest universities in this world and part of my brief is international education and I'll certainly be selling this across the globe but the other aspect I think we need to actually ensure that not only at teacher level at parent level throughout the education landscape that vocational qualifications and technical qualifications are seen as equally as important so raising that esteem I think is definitely going to be a focus and another thing we should be proud of is the amount of apprenticeships we've had is amazing I was speaking to somebody who'd worked in the sector for over 30 years and she told me that under Brown's government she's really tried to push him to actually mention apprenticeships once per year and look at us where we're at now it's amazing we've currently got 300,000 apprenticeships on the go at the moment but on top of that it's the T levels I went to the North West on T level results day and I wish I could bottle that energy I saw there if students were coming up to me and saying it's changed their lives getting that work experience is a great social mobility manoeuvre not everybody it's easy for middle class families to actually get the work experience get the internships and MPs offices but working class backgrounds like myself, like many on this panel it's much harder to have those opportunities so to actually have the work experience element apprenticeships and T levels offer on the CV we're really giving a better start to those young people and finally oh we've got one person clapping I thank you and finally Secretary of State I'm immensely proud of what we're bringing in 2025 it's a lifelong learning entitlement so if you think learning is not all about school leavers and I think this is going to be so important that whatever we're really changing the way the landscape of education is funded and this is really going to help those people who look after loved ones people who have been out the jobs market or was never trained before it gives them some great opportunities and flexibility in the learning system so I think that's an incredibly exciting place to be brilliant well friends the flashing number is telling me that we're out of time but I hope that you've got a sense of the enthusiasm and commitment from the team because as Jonathan said we are all appraised of the fact that everyday counts those of us who have been lucky enough to have children will know that they don't hang about they're gone in a flash they grow up in a blink and that just a week a day, a month of substandards, missed education whether it's in college university or right through the school system can have a huge impact on their life chances we've brought about over the last decade enormous success a huge leap forward we recognise that the work we're doing is building on that success but now we need to be impatient and demanding on behalf of all those kids that we're looking after making sure that they get the best that they can, the best foundation they can to build a really fantastic life for themselves in our wonderful country thanks very much everybody thank you