John Bald: I hope that the reshuffle will help to reverse the disastrous increase in the number of children in care

Improved educational provision is key. Increased use of boarding schools can offer a greater chance of stability.

Dave Evans: We need a Department for Social Care to give the issue the focus it needs

Children in care are denied the opportunities available to others. Levelling up must include transforming their life chances.

Michael Goode: How to close the inspiration gap in schools between students’ ability and their outcomes

Looking back on my schooldays, I can see how little we had in terms of inspiration. We simply didn’t know what we could aim for.

John Bald: A warm welcome to the Chartered College of Teaching

It is the only educational organisation whose focus is on teaching, rather than politics or management.

Robert Halfon: Covid has exacerbated educational inequalities. Schools need more autonomy to level up outcomes.

They should be held accountable for bettering the academic progress of the most deprived students.

John Bald: Collins’ resignation shows we need Conservatives to apply our policies

Our approach to educational problems is practical, effective, and affordable. We need people who believe in them to implement them.

Rachel Wolf: Tests for the delivery of levelling up, and levers with which to deliver it

It now needs to get real. This is clearly the plan in the next few months, starting with the Queen’s Speech tomorrow, leading to the Levelling Up paper. 

Tim Clark: The Sewell Report is right to highlight education as the passport to a fairer country

No-one will argue that Britain is perfect, but it has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. Why should this progress be ignored?

John Bald: Yes, Jess Phillips. Ministers indeed dropped the ball on sexual violence. Under Labour.

A casualty of its changes in government was a confidential questionnaire for pupils – given out and collected by inspectors.

Mark Lehain: Education after the pandemic. Keep calm – and carry on as we were.

The third in a mini-series of pieces on ConHome this week about schools after Covid.

Robert Halfon: Patriotism is important to people – whatever the liberal elite thinks – and there’s nothing wrong with that

Plus: There must be a national inquiry led by the Department for Education or Ofsted to establish what has gone on in our schools.

Shifting health policy leftwards?

A move from Ken Clarke to Aneurin Bevan would not only risk harming the NHS, but miss the real target of reform: social care.

An Eton mess

One of the school’s teachers has been fired for making a video about differences between men and women.

Robert Halfon: Who’s up for a Southern Research Group?

There is deprivation and lower educational attainment in the southern new towns, coastal communities, inner cities and rural coldspots.

Mark Lehain: “The Government stands unequivocally against critical race theory.” The significance of Badenoch’s speech this week.

The Campaign for Common Sense has four simple, low-effort, suggestions as to how schools can be helped to get back on track.