Wednesday

Meeting at the Department for Education of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Education Stakeholder Group, which I chair. There were a lot of important items on the agenda such as the Ofsted consultation and the reviews of the national curriculum, vocational education, school funding and school admissions, but several of the key players had sent apologies.

An important European Union development coming down the track is a proposal for "An EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020", which is to be discussed at the next meting of the European Council.