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We have had constructive engagement with the senior judiciary and their officials to build consensus around the best approach to the detailed provisions.
The ability to meet needs is absolutely dependent on having the best possible curriculum planning and delivering the best possible learning and teaching to those children and young people.
The question that we have to answer is the one that Mr Johnson poses—where and how is value best added? That might be the best way to address the question.
However, you need to have a candidate to appoint in the first place, and Shona has explained some of the constraints that, despite the team’s best efforts, meant that we were not able to find a candidate during that period.
Why did it choose the method that it has as the best one for alleviating poverty? We would not be party to any discussion about what motivated the Government’s approach.