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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Peter Walker and Kiran Stacey

Five former education secretaries urge Labour MPs to back Send reforms

David Blunkett.
David Blunkett was Tony Blair’s first education secretary, holding the post from 1997 to 2001. Photograph: Geoff Pugh/Shutterstock

Five former education secretaries have made a joint appeal to Labour MPs to back the overhaul of special education provision in English schools, calling it “a once in a generation chance” to fix a failing system.

The open letter is signed by David Blunkett, Estelle Morris, Charles Clarke, Ruth Kelly and Alan Johnson, who between them held the post for a decade from 1997.

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