Badman will be talking to …
According to the initial notes provided by EO Graham Badman intends to meet with the following:
- the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) who I’d never heard of and having looked at their web site I am immediately suspicious of.
- Stephen Heppell from NotSchool so should know about kids failed by school
- Paula Rothermel who is unique on this list in clearly knowing something about home education
- Arthur Ivatts who seems to be an OFSTED inspector and policy adviser to the UK Government on the education of Gypsies and Travellers - I guess you’d have to ask members of those groups what they think about him.
- OFSTED which inspects Children’s Services, and therefore ought to know how useless they are!
- NSPCC - enemy of freedom and civil rights and maker of far too many expensive TV adverts
- Kathy Sylva - keen on getting under 5s into formal education so goodness knows why she’s being consulted as under 5s aren’t covered by EHE.
- Martin Narey Chief Executive of Barnados - Why? Seriously, what does he or Barnados bring to the table? What?!
- Mick Walters from QCA - Saw him on a Teachers TV debate and he came across as a pretty reasonable and intelligent person, despite looking a lot like Cigarette Smoking Man from the X-Files.
- June Statham Professor of Education and Family Support at the Thomas Coram Research Institute - mixed feelings here but she ought to be well informed about the shoddy state of SEN provision in schools.