who are going to say, do you know what? did we actually give the best for these children? well, we did the best that we could do with the means that we had, but the means we had weren t enough. 51 what would 51 divided by 100 be? catching up won t be quick or easy. for schools like this one, at the heart of a community, there is a long road to recovery. elaine dunkley, bbc news in halifax. let us know what you think about that. and we ll be speaking to the education secretary, gavin williamson, at half past seven. let s speak now to our chief political correspondent, adam fleming, whojoins us from westminster. good morning, adam. adam, how has this funding announcement for schools gone down? it has not gone down very well with the teaching unions, because they have been the teaching unions, because they have been speaking to the expert brought have been speaking to the expert brought in to lead this catch up stuff, brought in to lead this catch up stuff, kevin collins, in the p
time in to think, 0k, i want that child to be brilliant in maths, but before i do, i ve got to make sure his family is ok, i ve got to make sure that he s 0k emotionally, if you don t see all of that, then you re not going to get anywhere with these children. what you re going to end up with is people at the end of it who are going to say, do you know what? did we actually give the best for these children? well, we did the best that we could do with the means that we had, but the means we had weren t enough. 51 what would 51 divided by 100 be? catching up won t be quick or easy. for schools like this one, at the heart of a community, there is a long road to recovery. elaine dunkley, bbc news in halifax. earlier i spoke to our chief political correspondent adam fleming who says these proposals have got caught up in the government s wider public spending plans. there will be a comprehensive spending review in the autumn when all the budgets and spending plans of all the government de
with is people at the end of it who are going to say, do you know what? did we actually give the best for these children? well, we did the best that we could do with the means that we had, but the means we had weren t enough. 51 what would 51 divided by 100 be? catching up won t be quick or easy. for schools like this one, at the heart of a community, there is a long road to recovery. elaine dunkley, bbc news in halifax. speaking to the bbc earlier, the education secretary gavin williamson justified the spending in the face of criticism that it doesn t go far enough. ididn tand i didn t and i don t think the prime minister want to be in a situation where we are waiting for a comprehensive spending review to get money out the door in order to be able to have a positive impact in terms of children s lives and that is why we have done this quite unprecedented intervention outside of a spending period where we are