The new Children’s Plan, announced by the grandly titled Secretary of State for Children, Schools, Families, Hockey Sticks, Jolly Japes and Ginger Beer, Ed Balls, seems quite a good collection of proposals, assuming the money will be available to deliver it, which is always the problem with anything Tarnished Labour announces. The plans are good and generally common sense, from allowing children born in the summer to start school later, to improving sex education, which is so laughable that it could form the basis for a sitcom in most European countries. The government also plans to introduce more ‘resorative justice’, ...
