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Sutton Trust statement on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
17 Dec 2024
Sean Coughlan reports on the Sutton Trust’s analysis of Theresa May’s new cabinet.
Justine Greening has been appointed as education secretary in Theresa May’s Cabinet reshuffle.
Ms Greening, who went to school in a Rotherham comprehensive, was previously secretary of state for international development.
She announced last month she was in a same-sex relationship, making her the first openly gay female Cabinet minister.
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According to the Sutton Trust education charity, she joins a Cabinet with the lowest proportion of privately-educated ministers since Clement Attlee’s Labour government of 1945.
Read the full report here.