The prime minister says the scrapping of single-phrase inspection headline grades for schools in England will be a relief for parents. Sir Keir Starmer tells reporters on a visit to a primary school in Orpington; "this move today is about driving up standards, making sure we've got a richer picture”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I've got a mission for our government, which is to make sure that every single child, whatever
00:05their background, wherever they come from, has the best possible education.
00:10This move today is about driving up standards, making sure that we've got a richer picture
00:15so parents can see in a more accountable way the real strength of a school, and making
00:20sure we've got the improvements in to catch schools quickly.
00:23So this is all about driving up standards, and I'm really pleased that we're able to
00:27do it so quickly.
00:28We'll be absolutely pressing schools on standards, and I don't accept that parents will be confused.
00:34I've got two children in secondary education, and so we have ourselves had to look at schools.
00:40And I have to say, from our point of view, the sort of single grade didn't work very
00:44well because we want to know, well, what about the other areas?
00:47What about this aspect?
00:48Is this school strong, sort of in depth?
00:51I think a lot of people, a lot of parents, will be really relieved to know it's going
00:54to be a richer picture, more accountability, and that you've got a government that's absolutely
00:59determined to drive up standards.