Ministers have been accused of giving up on governing after a Schools Week investigation found at least 21 policies promised for this year have yet to materialise.
The wide-ranging commitments relate to some of the year’s biggest policy reforms – including the SEND review and climate change action plan.
Kevin Courtney, the former joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government “talks in the future tense about things that are going to happen around the Advanced British Standard and more maths teachers, but it’s failing [on] current pledges.
“It is not governing and education needs a general election to come sooner rather than later.”
Our analysis identified at least 89 policies promised to either start or be delivered by or during this year.
