Tag: David Blunkett
David Blunkett: Introducing Citizenship education was the easy bit. We need to do more to encourage schools to support youth participation
The previous Labour government added Citizenship to the National Curriculum in England in 2002. Last week on Democrat Audit David Kerr discussed how its prominence has fallen in more recent and called for more robust monitoring of provision. In this post David Blunkett MP, Education Secretary under Labour, discusses the importance of Citizenship and how its […]
Our politicians must stop scapegoating the Roma community
Leading UK politicians – including the Deputy Prime Minister and former Home Secretary – have recently warned of tensions between Britain’s Roma communities and their neighbours, referring to the unacceptable behaviour of the Roma migrants. Yaron Matras argues here that it is wrong to make such generalisations on the basis of ethnicity, and undermines Britain’s democratic […]
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