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Education secretary @GillianKeegan is taking questions from MPs in the Commons now.
She starts by paying tribute to Baroness Boothroyd, the first female Commons speaker, and then defends DfE levels of support for rural schools and SEND budgets.
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The government wants to cut 'unproductive tasks' from teacher workload.
What happens if you ask 9,000 teachers to give examples of the unproductive tasks they spend most time on?
🧵 Here's what we found via @TeacherTapp ....
Education secretary @GillianKeegan is about to address school leaders and students at the CofE national education conference at the Union Chapel in north London - stay tuned for updates
The DfE was “one of the very few government departments” to get such big extra funding.
“The unions asked and we delivered,” she says pointedly in the middle of industrial unrest.
She also namechecks four schools she attended, saying she’s not sure they all know she went there. And Keegan praises a Mr Ashcroft who stayed late to help her. She wants all leaders to think about @educationgovuk’s 150,000 promised fully funded NPQs by 2024.
DfE permanent secretary Susan Acland-Hood, ESFA chief exec John Edwards and DfE director of academies and maintained schools Warwick Sharp will shortly appear before the @CommonsPAC to talk about the academies sector annual report and accounts. Stay tuned for live tweets...
On academisation drive, Acland-Hood is asked if it's DfE's vision that all state schools should become academies "in due course".
She says it's the government's policy
Asked how long a period that will happen over, she says "I think you might have to wait for the schools white paper to see the next steps on that" #academies