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David Ward is making an impression in Westminster
David Ward has used his maiden speech in Parliament to warn against the erroneous view that the cycle of deprivation could be broken by improving the educational outcome of children in deprived communities.
Bradford has one of the fastest-growing populations in the country, and one of the youngest with one in four people in Bradford East under 25.
He said, "It is not by raising educational outcomes that we reduce deprivation - it is by reducing deprivation that we raise educational outcomes.
"We need to look at all the possible determinants of educational attainment, including gender, ethnicity, religion, and school structure.
"We have been through them all - community, foundation, grant-maintained, academies, city technology and private. Nothing, but nothing, compares with deprivation as the overwhelming determinant of a pupil's academic success and later, sadly, their prospects for employment, mental health, physical health and life expectancy. In education, class really does matter."
David also commented on Conservative plans to extend Academies and privately run schools,
"In a place such as Bradford, proposals for more faith schools and academies and the rights of parents to set up their own schools threaten social cohesion, strategic planning of school places, co-ordination of admissions and collaborative partnerships," he said. "I worry about that."
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