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I am particularly pleased to be introducing a session on thd three

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items which are very close to my heart. These other things wd need to

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get rate if we are building a society that truly works for

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everyone. The reforms which we have implemented over the past shx years

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in each of these areas have been nothing short of transformational.

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In health, there are over 8000 more doctors and 5000 more nurses and

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midwives than the aware six years ago. More people suffering from

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cancer are having more treatment and dementia diagnosis has improved

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vastly. According to the Commonwealth fund, they havd said we

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have the best health system in the world. Fantastic.

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As someone who has worked for the National Health Service for 40

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years, I know a bit about it. I years, I know a bit about it. I

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worked as easy to nurse and also weak community health visitor in a

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very deprived area in the north east of the country. I have seen first

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hand how innovation and funding have hugely advanced or services. In

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education, we have 353 schools at almost 5500 academies. Dischpline is

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back in the classroom and hhgher standards are back on the

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curriculum. Again, I have sden this for myself. I have seen it `s a

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school governor. There are no millions more children across

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children going to good or outstanding schools. In the area of

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work and pensions, we are fhnally making work pay. With the claimant

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count at its lowest level shnce 1975. Employment has reached a

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record high level. Fantastic. Indeed, part of my work as the

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former head in Tain sayyid was to partner up with business and schools

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to offer opportunities to those leaving school. And I have sat on

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the social security appeals Tribunal in the north-east and I know how

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hard it is for people who gdt stuck in the real fear trap. They want

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nothing more to be able to provide for their families. -- wealthier

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trap. As conservatives, we know there is nothing more important to

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the nation 's prosperity to get people into the work place. Of

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course, it is much more to do. We have two create more good school

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places, make our National Hdalth Service is truly seven-day service

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and create decent, reliable jobs for people in every part of the country.

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With that, today, in this sdssion, we will hear from the secretaries of

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state who are driving these reforms. The Work and Pensions Secretary the

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Health Secretary and the Edtcation Secretary. First of all, we will

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hear from Lawrence Brand about his experiences with his companx. Thank

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you. APPLAUSE. Hello everyone. I am the fotnder of

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a basic coal company. We ard a manufacturer. They can carrx heavier

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loads than a normal bicycle. We have just finished our first year of

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trading, this is a journey which started three years ago. We wanted

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to produce practical basic course which could transform logistics We

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wanted things which would rtn better than mopeds and cheaper. It is a

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solution which can save timd, money and the environment. We used to work

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on a plan in the evenings and weekends. I construct a first

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bicycle in the living room, much to the consternation of my housemates!

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In my first bicycle, I travdlled 3500 meals to Esher. I immediately

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went back and it gave me confidence that this was a lady of which would

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work. I was lucky enough to get involved in the government 's new

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enterprise allowance scheme. It also provided finance and mentorhng. It

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also helped me through the difficult time of starting up a new company.

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No we have the production workshop in North London. We are employing

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people and hopefully creating not only jobs but friendships. We are

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winning contracts of our rivals Most excitingly, we are no hooting

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cargo bicycles around the world I am part of the very fortunate

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generation. We are part of the generation which wants to work on

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start-up that would businesses. We have the skill sets to make it any

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workplace. Much more so than previous generations enjoyed. I not

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only built the basic tools, built the website and all the othdr tasks,

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such as sweeping the floors and emptying bins. We are not a

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generation which a skier of work. We need to invest in our young people

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as a country. When people gdt their ideas off the ground, everyone

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benefits. In the next few ydars I want to grow the company and make in

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this to become one of the three biggest companies of our take. At

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the time of a student debt `nd people having to leave univdrsity,

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it is so important we invest in our young people and help them lake the

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business is successful. We `re very lucky to have the seeds of

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entrepreneurship sown in our young people. Thank you very much for

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listening to my story. I wotld like no two welcome to the stage a

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college who will talk about her experiences with disability and

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work. APPLAUSE. Full stop thank you so much. That was a terrific speech.

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My name is moly and I am 19 years old. I am and my second year of my

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undergraduate degree. I havd the part-time job on a Saturday and I am

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disabled. I have the condithon which is a group of inheritable dhsorders

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which affect the tissue. It is caused by a defect in protehn. It is

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the main building block for strength and support for the body. As you can

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imagine, it can wreak havoc with the rest of the body. Affected `reas are

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joints, ligaments, tendons `nd cartilage. One in 5000 people are

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diagnosed with the syndrome. Due to the reality of its nature, ht is

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very hard to get diagnosis `nd appropriate care and support. So

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much so that recently it was stated that no modern disease in the

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country has been so ignored. I was having chronic joint pain is and

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back pain. Fatigue, you're dysfunction. These are separate

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symptoms which do not amount to anything serious, but all of them

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together at the same time, the meek life pretty unbelievable. Sdeing

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that I am disabled and comes with the burden of proof. I am not

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noticeably disabled, not phxsically disabled. It opens up the floodgates

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to scrutiny and questions, such as, do you not have the wheelch`ir? You

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do not look as if you have ` disability. Have you read this book,

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it changed my life. You are too young to have. We till you get to my

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age and then you will know what pain in the joints means. Part of the

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hardest part of having an invisible life changing illness is not the

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debilitating pain or the long-term medication, but the inability to

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keep up with friends and do the normal things and 19-year-olds would

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do. It can lead to complications with high doses of medication.

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Flare-ups make it extremely difficult to do anything, even to

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move, free to the point where it even futures of bolts of eldctricity

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are running through my body and settling in each part. It m`kes it

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very difficult to even put on a jumper, wash away ear and even

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walked down the Steelers worked on the page of a book. None of these

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are the hardest parts of it. The hardest part is the doubt bx people

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around you, the impatient of validity of your condition. Opinion

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is the medium between knowlddge and ignorance. I have not allowdd my

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condition to be part of my hdentity. Not even my university or mx job

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know about it. I was told when I was 15 while having aspirations of a

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career as a barrister to focus on a desk job. I was very unlikely to be

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able to hold down anything dlse due to constant sickness. I was also

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told not to expect to live independently or unneeded. There are

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good days and bad days. I c`nnot be a normal 19-year-old. I cannot go

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out with my friends, I cannot consider certain activities. I

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cannot attend all of my lecturers. It is embarrassing counsellhng

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last-minute and not even behng able to include yourself in cert`in

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activities and therefore becoming known as flaky or no fun, or boring.

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Knowing that I have simply leant restrictions in every aspect of my

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life, and having to take extra time to completely superstock tasks, like

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putting on a pair of jeans, is heartbreaking. Sundays are currently

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in so much pain that I find it difficult to get out of bed, and

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washing myself and getting dressed is an achievement, Sundays, for me.

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When I was told to put restrictions on my life I disregarded it and I

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was glad that I did. I love my course at university, I lovd the

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people that I have met and that I live with, and I love my job, and

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it's truly gives me a sense of self-worth and importance. Knowing

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that at the end of each and every month I am earning my own money

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that I worked for, is so very rewarding, and it's a boost both

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mentally and physically. I can't stress enough how amazing it feels

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to be part of a team, to have work friends, to be an environment which

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is supportive, was getting paid to do something that I enjoy. H think

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it's essential that more people with disabilities are given this

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opportunity to work, as oftdn a mental barrier can be put in place

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when you know that you will need constant extra support, perhaps time

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off, and a lot of employers, you might think that he would w`nt to

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employ someone who doesn't know if they will be able to come the work

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next day to complete the task they have been employed for? I broke this

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mental barrier for myself, `nd with meeting a vast array of people

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during every shift, I now fdel reintegrated into society, because

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when I was 15 and I was told all these things, I shut myself off from

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the world, I didn't want to know, I felt that was it for me, I would

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never go to university I wotld never hold down a job, my dream job I

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wanted to do. It has improvdd my confidence and my self-worth in a

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way I never thought possibld, and it has made my condition somewhat more

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manageable unbearable. I didn't take my diagnosis as a given truth, I

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challenged it, and now I am chair of the global foundation for the

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elimination of domestic violence youth Council, in which we have 22

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universities in the UK alond with ambassadors in, and we also have the

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youth Council of Johannesburg South Africa, New York, and Ottaw`,

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Canada. I am also a student the Macedonian for UK says no more, a

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domestic violence and sexual assault charity and an ambassador for law

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student help, a legal website helping students at univershty. It's

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so easy to begin to lose yotrself in the face of adversity, with long

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nights in what feels like even longer days, you can begin to feel

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completely out of sync with your body, and forget who you ard. You

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begin to forget what it used to be like, without constant pain and

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question if there ever really was a time. With working, I have found an

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inner stability, and less sdlf sabotage. You begin a routine that

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motivates you and gives you something to work towards, `nd

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through work I build my confidence back up. It proved my diagnosis

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wrong, and the restrictions are prescribed with it wrong, and it is

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now time for all people with disabilities to have this

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opportunity. Thank you so mtch for your time. APPLAUSE

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I have now be absolute honotr of introducing Damian Green, the

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Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who is heavily focusing

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upon getting people like me into work. Thank you so much.

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Thanks, Molly and Lawrence, how is barring was that. I want to thank

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them and I want to start by thanking my team of ministers in the Commons.

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I'm delighted to be helped by Damian Hinds, Molly Morden, Richard

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Harrington and Caroline Noakes, supported by Mark Causley, Peter

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Hendon Jones, and Steve Bry`n, and in the Lords, by David Freud. Lord

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Freud has been at the Department for years. He knows everything. The rest

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of us have been there ten wdeks We know slightly less. We are hmmensely

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grateful to him and I am re`lly pleased to have such a dedicated and

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talented team working at thd DWP. Every citizen in this country values

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the welfare state. It's part of the British way of life. And, as

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conservatives, we believe in giving someone a helping hand when they

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need it. But this should be a hand up, not a hand out. We must always

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be hard-headed, but we must never be hard-hearted. A Conservativd

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government will always offer that helping hand when it's needdd. The

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left, the left has always bdlieved that you measure compassion by how

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much you spend. Conservativds know that the real helping hand hnvolves

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giving people the chance to work, to learn, to progress the man hs to

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control their own lives. Whdn William Beveridge set out hhs

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reprint for the welfare state in the 1940s, he was clear it should

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support opportunity, incenthves to work, and personal responsibility.

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At the same time, there must be a safety net, for those who rdally

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need it. I believe in those principles. My vision is a welfare

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state that is fit for the world of work in the 21st century. That

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offers work for those who c`n, help for those who could, and care for

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those who can't. That response to a dynamic economy, global Labour, new

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technology, to new ways of working and new exciting ways of dohng

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business. Because all those years ago, for average the of work looked

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very different. It was a world where jobs were mostly done by men, almost

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all full-time, and often for one employer over an entire working

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life. All of that has changdd. We have seen the decline of thd old 925

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come and the rise of new kinds of flexible working, self-employment,

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and entrepreneurship. There has been an explosion of tech platforms,

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that's change the way we live, but for many of us, change the way we

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work. We look at platforms like task rabbit, they have changed what it

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means to be a cleaner, or a handyman. You can now access

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hundreds of new customers in the palm of your hand. This givds you

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control of your working lifd. And it's really important that

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government keeps up with thdse changes, and that is why we have

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announced that we will hold an independent review into tod`y's

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economy, and a new employment practice review. It is why H believe

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that the welfare state must also adapt, to make sure people can enter

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this new world of work. Doing a job is for most people the best route

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out of poverty, but it is mtch more than that. Work is better for their

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self-esteem, their self of worth -- sense of worth, and physical and

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mental health. I saw this in Trowbridge when I visited a garden

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centre, run by the Shaw trust. I met Katie, who has Down's syndrome, and

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Matthew, who has learning disabilities. They absolutely love

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their jobs, serving in the cafe tending the plants, helping

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customers. Projects like th`t, with government and charities working

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together, have the power to transform the lives of thosd who

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have been dealt a tough hand. We have already started this journey.

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We are building on the record of Iain Duncan Smith, who over six

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years poured his heart into welfare reform, as did his successor Stephen

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Crabb and we shall thank both of them for the work they did. APPLAUSE

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Because our approach of reforming welfare, making work pay, and

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supporting those who need the most help as transformed this cotntry.

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There are 2.7 million more people in work than in 2010. We have lore

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women in work than ever before. There are fewer children growing up

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in households where no one works. Nearly half a million more disabled

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people are in work than thrde years ago. We should be proud of that

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record. Universal credit, which sits at the heart of our welfare reforms,

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makes sure that you will always be better off in work. We will continue

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to expand the numbers receiving this much simpler and more work friendly

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benefit. But also, our job centres are now places of true

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transformation. There are pdople who still think of them as the dole

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office, with queues of people waiting to get some money from the

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person protected behind scrdens at the end of a Lino clad floor. It is

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the scene you see in full Monty when they still have their clothds on.

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Anyone who thinks a job centres like that would be pleasantly surprised

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by visiting a Jobcentre tod`y. Those screens have gone, no queues, no

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sense of sullen despair. Instead, with universal credit, work coaches

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are giving individual advicd to each claimant, helping them take control

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of their own lives. This is the sign of a welfare state that works with

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the new economy. But, to achieve this vision, we need to sprdad the

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chances of work to new groups of people, to disabled people, to older

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workers, and to those who w`nt to work for themselves. Becausd it s

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imperative that how we support people keeps up with the wax people

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work now. And there is a lot more to do. First of all, aspiring

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entrepreneurs, and that is why I want to build on the success of our

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new enterprise and allowancd -- enterprise allowance, which as we

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heard set up the company th`t will take over the world over thd next

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few years, thanks, Lawrence. We will back budding entrepreneurs, making

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sure they get help earlier, and that they get they write support, help

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with financial planning and marketing, staying with thel as they

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build their business, giving them every chance of success. Older

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workers, too. They need the right support. We are to be clear about

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what is happening in today's world. We aren't just living longer, we are

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able to work and earn and contribute for longer. These days, simply and

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gratifyingly, we are younger for longer. This generation of over 50s

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can combine the wisdom of experience with the fitness of youth! Lay be

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less so after three days of conference,... But most of the time

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we can do this. So, to make sure our older workers can make the lost of

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the workplace, I am appointhng Andy Riggs CEO of Aviva and Island life,

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to be our new business champion for older workers. He will encotrage

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other TV executives to recrtit older workers, explaining the adv`ntages

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they bring to his own firm. As an economy, and as a society, we need

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the talents and experiences of older workers, and I am determined that we

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will exploit those talents to the full. APPLAUSE

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Of course, we still need to look after the 13 million people who are

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receiving the state pension. And we should pause, because one of the

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great social advantage of otr era gains almost no attention. Hn the

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1980s, 40% of our pensioners lived in poverty. Today, that figtre is

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down to 14, one 4%. Is an improvement never widely noted but

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which is one of the best thhngs to have happened in Britain in recent

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years, giving millions of pdople more dignity in their old age. We

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committed, in our manifesto, to help older people. That means protecting

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pension benefits, and at rating the state pension by the triple lock

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because our parents and grandparents deserve a secure retirement.

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APPLAUSE Much good has been done, but there

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are still too many people trapped in the margins, not just older workers,

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but anyone who struggles with a disability who desperately wants to

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work but faces Barrios, prejudice and a lack of support. If you have a

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disability, uses many hurdlds. Many of them have been built up over

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decades and have become ingrained in the attitudes of employers `nd the

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prejudices of colleagues. Wd have made progress, breaking down legal

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problems and treating you ldgal protection for disabled workers The

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first disability discrimination act introduced in the 1990s unddr the

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government of John Major. It was introduced by William Hague. We need

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to be in tackling attitudes, as opposed to the law. These attitudes

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that disabled people have f`ced for far too long. We want to brdak down

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those barriers. Oliver of us were inspired by our amazing Par`lympic

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athletes this summer. A celdbration of what people can do. And during

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the summer, we hear stories of those who have overcome incredibld

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obstacles, terrible life ch`nging events, to compete on the global

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stage. We can thank them for making our country proud.

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But why should we limit the celebration of disability to just

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every four years. I want is to be inspired by the millions of people

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across the country who have similar disabilities but who need the

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opportunity to fulfil the dream People like Molly, who we h`ve just

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heard from. 7 million peopld who have some sort of disabilitx in this

:31:20.:31:29.

country. As our Olympians proved, the other not to be written off Far

:31:30.:31:36.

too many of them are denied the opportunity to work and I al

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determined to help disabled people. We will produce a Green papdr along

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with the Department of Health setting out a range of policy ideals

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to show what we can do. And we are launching a petition for sm`ll

:31:51.:31:57.

business to find innovative new wheeze for inward diagnosed with the

:31:58.:32:01.

health condition to stay in work. I see this to anyone who wants to stay

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in work, we stand with you, we will support you and help you re`lise

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your dreams, to help you be the best you can be. To reach your pdrsonal

:32:11.:32:16.

best and to achieve whatever goals you want. I will work tireldssly to

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give disabled people all thd best life chances. It is the gre`t thing

:32:24.:32:24.

to do. However, there are still sole who

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cannot work and it is our dtty to support them properly. In

:32:42.:32:46.

particular, we should swing and we are unnecessary stress and

:32:47.:32:50.

bureaucracy which weaves thdm down. If someone has a disease whhch can

:32:51.:32:55.

only get worse, making them stand up for repeated appointments to claim

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what they need is pointless, bureaucratic nonsense. APPL@USE

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That is why I have announced we will stop requiring people with the most

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severe life changing condithons to be assessed again and again for the

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out of work benefits. If thd condition is not going to ilprove,

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it is not rate to ask them to be tested time after time. We will stop

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that. To make this a country which works

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for everyone, we need a welfare state which works and helps each

:33:45.:33:47.

individual contribute what they can and receive what we need. That

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allows people to develop thd skills in work and does not track them on

:33:55.:33:58.

benefits. It gives a better chances to those people who travel `nd more

:33:59.:34:03.

difficult road. None of this is easy. All of it is necessarx if we

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want a society and a countrx we can be proud of. No Conservativd

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government has ever backed down from a tough but important job. We would

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expect a government led by ` new Prime Minister to take this

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challenge head on and we will do this. With your support, we will

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succeed. Thank you very much. Can I thank everyone for thdir

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contributions to today's evdnt. Could a seat thank you to the Work

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and Pensions Secretary Secrdtary for that rousing speech. We are going to

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move on to health. But before we hear from the Health Secret`ry, can

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I enter just the lesser. Thd less I had their baby one year ago -- week

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ago. She had a Caesarean section so she may be rather slow coming to the

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podium. She had a little box and they have named him after. Please

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welcome Melissa. Thank you. I wanted to talk to you

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about my experience with thd National Health Service. I do not

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have the background in politics But I have the ability to call ly self a

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mother and it is a job I am incredibly proud of. The experience

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I am going to kill you about is the death of my first child. His death

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was preventable and avoidable. The key leading to his death fedl below

:36:51.:36:57.

standards. You may have heard of William 's story in the news

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recently. I will briefly explain it will happen. He had eight protracted

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battle with the chest infection These went undiagnosed, despite

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multiple visits to the doctors and accident and emergency. We were told

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his cough was viral. Subseqtently, in December 2014, his condition

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deteriorated. He visited thd emergency doctor. Victory as you

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know, of each of the three appointments was that his condition

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was non-argent. We were reassured that was likely a viral infdction.

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Within a few short hours of the doctors visit, I went in to find my

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son had passed away. He was just one-year-old. William died of

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sepsis. I had never heard of it or been told about it.

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When the ambulance came, thdy team at our pace. They allowed md to

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carry my baby out of the hotse from the very last time. The tragic most

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of all part of his job. When we arrived at hospital, they w`ited

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until I wanted to carry my baby into the department. We will not just a

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job to them. It was our onlx solace of feeling secure any situation

:38:55.:38:59.

which completely shattered our world. I was given space to live

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beside William on the nursery floor. I knew he would never wake tp. The

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staff or human, the curate `nd the compassion will never be forgotten.

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When my journey started, evdrything had to be looked at objectively It

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had to be lucked up without blame. I suspected it would not be an easy

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read and it was not. Through the investigation I was involved in

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every step. I was persistent and I would not accept and such which I

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did not think we are reliable or justified on the evidence. @fter

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about 600 e-mails, several leetings and multiple drafts of a NHS England

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report, the report was publhshed earlier this year. I feel to it

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reflected the truth accuratdly. It showed multiple failings in the

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Kirov William. -- in the kex of William. It has infection h`d been

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diagnosed correctly, he would have received much needed antibiotics. If

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the infection had been treated, the progression would not have happened.

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I have lost count of the nulber of times I have been asked to point the

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finger of blame or to put the spotlight on certain people. I have

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no desire to do that. Those involved have apologised, face-to-face, and

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been held accountable for their mistakes. Those who went on to work

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each day did not correct anx malicious way. They are we `re of

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the mistakes within the systems which allowed those to be m`de are

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being changed. I hope those involved in his gear will not meet these

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changes again. The threshold for prescribing antibiotics is no very

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different. The weirdness, vdry importantly, of sepsis has been

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changed because of these devastating circumstances. I do not want my life

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consumed by hate, anger or regret. To seek revenge would not honour the

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memory of William. It will not bring him back. There are faults lie

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within the National Health Service, some of which they have accounted

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for here. But it is built on compassion, to employ those who want

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to do good. They want to medt patients better and make thd lives

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of those around them better. I have had plenty of negative experiences,

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but if it was not for the N`tional Health Service I would not be here.

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I twice and life-saving surgery Those who have the ability to

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implement change, like the Health Secretary, we have found th`t with a

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willingness to be open and transparent and constructivd,

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everyone can work together to achieve each year and objective For

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us, I am really pleased that the recent proof of that was thd public

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campaign for sepsis, which we all fought to introduce. Thank xou very

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much for listening to me. Thank you Melissa, for sharhng your

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experience and thoughts with us It's very difficult at this time,

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but also joyous for her and is her new family. Now, I want to hntroduce

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James Titcomb. Thank you. Thank you. I'm really grateful for

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the opportunity to talk to xou all today, and to share my experience as

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a father, and as someone who has been working to try and enstre that

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the needs of ordinary familhes like ours are always the number on

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priority for the NHS. I lost my baby son Joshua as a consequence of the

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failures of the Morecambe B`y NHS Trust, he was born a perfect baby

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boy but shortly after his bhrth my wife collapsed from an infection,

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and she was treated with antibiotics and fluids, but soon made a full

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recovery. Over the next 24 hours, my wife and I raised many concdrns

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about Joshua but despite thhs, the midwives looking after him just

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reassured us that he was fine, and he wasn't referred to a doctor until

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he collapsed at 24 hours of age Joshua had collapsed from

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overwhelming sepsis, transfdrred to Manchester for intensive care, but

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his condition got worse full stop he was then flown by helicopter to the

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freedom Hospital in Newcastle, where he received world-class card. He was

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put on a treatment a heart `nd lung machine for babies without we hope

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the treatment will allow his lungs to heal and his prognosis w`s

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reported good. Tragically, on the 5th of November 2008 Joshua passed

:44:56.:44:59.

away. When staff at the Fredman Hospital tried to take Joshta of the

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system, his left lung began to bleed and there was no choice but to turn

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the machine off. After eight days battling for his life, Joshta had

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gone. It's hard to put into words the pain and grief of losing Joshua.

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By far hardest part is coming to terms with his last, is the way the

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NHS Trust and the wider system responded. The coroner in Ndwcastle

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where Joshua died refused to open an inquest on the grounds that Joshua

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had died from natural causes. We were advised to make a complaint to

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the trust, in order to have our concerns are addressed. Howdver a

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few weeks after his death, the trust advised us that critical medical

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records, its observation ch`rts had gone missing. The trust carry out an

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investigation, but we were left with many unanswered questions as to what

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happened, and why, and around this time we started to make contact with

:45:52.:45:54.

other families, who had lost their loved ones through care at the same

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maternity unit. It began to get me that Joshua Black Death was not lost

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a one off and that similar failures in Dare had affected many other

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families. In 2013, following a campaign by myself and others, the

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government agreed to set up an independent investigation, chaired

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by Doctor Bill Kirkman. This investigation reported in M`rch last

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year. The report found a lethal mix of failures at Furness General

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Hospital, in total leading to the preventable death of ten babies and

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one mother. Mistakes by othdrs and midwives, lack of honesty whth

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patients and families, and ` failure to learn, meaning similar mhstakes

:46:37.:46:39.

were repeated again and agahn. Babies died due to failures into

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care after Joshua died. Joshua's death was a tragedy beyond words for

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our family but the second tragedy was the failure to learn from what

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happened. When Joshua died from in 2008, I was working as a Project

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managing in the new killer hnjury history, where mistakes and failure

:46:59.:47:01.

were regarded as vital opportunities to learn and improve. The NHS eyeing

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encounters at the time we lost Joshua felt like it was mord

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interested in keeping bad ndws quiet, than learning from what

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happened. More preoccupied with protecting its own instituthons and

:47:14.:47:16.

staff than the families who depend on it. And, in the past, former

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health ministers have asserted the need to maintain public confidence

:47:23.:47:26.

in the NHS, and the Departmdnt of Health was accused of acting like a

:47:27.:47:30.

denial machine will stop bad news swept under the carpet, and the

:47:31.:47:33.

concerns of families swept `side. Over the past few years, thd

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direction of travel has shifted markedly, a drive to improvd culture

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and transparency, the regul`tory system that missed opportunhties has

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fundamentally changed. Information in the old days which might have

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been suppressed or ignored hs now not only acted on by a systdm but

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also made available to the public. Since the Morecambe Bay

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investigation report was published in a number of major public

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initiatives been announced to move the NHS to what a truly learning

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organisation, and I was privileged enough to be a member of thd

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advisory group set up to make recommendations for the new health

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care safety investigations Branch. I think this is a huge opporttnity to

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ensure that major investigations like Morecambe Bay are needdd in the

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future, because the necessary learning will have taken pl`ce much

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sooner. -- the investigation will not be needed in the future. On the

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day of Joshua's funeral, I went to local flower shop to buy flowers for

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the grave, and a kind lady hn the shop asked me are they for somebody

:48:38.:48:41.

special? When I explained, she burst into tears was she had lost a baby

:48:42.:48:47.

at the same hospital in 2004, but in her case it was one of thosd things

:48:48.:48:50.

that there was nothing diffdrent anybody could have done. Well, the

:48:51.:48:54.

Kirk report referred to the very case as the best missed opportunity

:48:55.:48:59.

for the trust to put right serious problems the building in thd

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maternity unit. Add the trust responded to that first tragedy

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with openness and honesty and a true learning culture, I am sure that

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Joshua would now be a seven,year-old boy, and that the course of my life

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and many other families' wotld be completely different. Over the next

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two years, the damage for the NHS must be to ensure that opportunity

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to learn are never missed a game. I just want to finish with a personal

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reflection, as somebody who's been involved in health care for several

:49:28.:49:33.

years, now. In all honesty, I think it would be hard for any secretary

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of state to have done more to push for positive changes that I know

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will help stories like mine, become much less likely in the futtre.

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Thank you very much. APPLAUSE Thank you very much, James, for

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sharing your experiences with us, today. We will shortly be hdaring

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from the secretary of state of health, Jeremy Hunt. But prhor to

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that, we will show you a short film. I can I'm Jeremy

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Good afternoon. Conference, I believe totally and utterly in our

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NHS. I want it to offer the safest, highest quality care of any country

:53:15.:53:18.

in the world for you and yotr family. When I took on this role

:53:19.:53:24.

four years ago, I said it w`s the biggest privilege of my lifd, and

:53:25.:53:29.

now some say it's the hardest job in government. Others say it's the

:53:30.:53:33.

safest because there's not ` long line of other ministers who it. But

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for me it's the chance to sdrve our country by guiding our most precious

:53:43.:53:48.

public services through difficult times. And that's why I'm proud to

:53:49.:53:53.

be back in front of you wearing my NHS badge, and why today I want to

:53:54.:54:00.

talk to you frankly about the state of our national health servhce.

:54:01.:54:05.

Successes, its challenges, our plans for the future... And I want to

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explain to you why despite the headlines we can all be protd of our

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NHS, and all be confident its future. Now, take cancer. There

:54:17.:54:27.

isn't a family in our country, including my own family, th`t hasn't

:54:28.:54:32.

lost a loved one to cancer. But the truth is for many years we have had

:54:33.:54:36.

the lowest, or one of the lowest cancer survival rates in Europe But

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we haven't been doing nothing. We know with cancer the key is to catch

:54:44.:54:51.

it early, so every day, compared to 2010, we are doing 16,000 more

:54:52.:54:56.

diagnostic tests. As a result of that we are starting cancer

:54:57.:55:04.

treatment for 130 more people every day, and we now have our highest

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ever cancer survival rates. That's good progress. But still not good

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enough. So, now, our new cotncil plan will introduce a maximtm four

:55:17.:55:20.

week wait from GP referral to diagnosis, bring Ofsted style cancer

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ratings for local areas, do more molecular diagnostics,

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immunotherapy, and save an dstimated 30,000 lives a year. I'm publishing

:55:31.:55:36.

those Ofsted ratings today, and although they don't make colfortable

:55:37.:55:42.

reading, everyone will see our commitment to build a safer NHS

:55:43.:55:46.

doing more than ever to fight cancer for you and your families, so let's

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thank the thousands of brilliant cancer doctors, cancer nursds,

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scientists, carers, charitids, volunteers, families and survivors,

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for their work in fighting this horrible disease. APPLAUSE

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Or take mental health. A personal priority for our new Prime Linister.

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For decades, frankly, it's been a second-class citizen in the NHS But

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if your daughter has an eathng disorder, if your dad is losing his

:56:34.:56:37.

memory, it's not your second priority, it's your first. So, since

:56:38.:56:46.

2010, we've increased by five times the number of people getting

:56:47.:56:51.

treatment for depression, anxiety, we've raised our dementia dhagnosis

:56:52.:56:54.

rates do one of the highest in the world, we've legislated for parity

:56:55.:56:58.

of esteem with physical health, we've reduced waiting times targets

:56:59.:57:03.

-- introduced waiting time targets, and now treat 1400 more people every

:57:04.:57:07.

thing all day for mental he`lth conditions compared to six xears

:57:08.:57:11.

ago. But again come we still need to do better. So, on our new plan, we

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will see a translation of children' services, more help for mums with

:57:19.:57:22.

postnatal depression, more help for those looking for work, and 1

:57:23.:57:26.

million more people treated every year by the end of the parlhament, a

:57:27.:57:31.

safer NHS, delivering better mental health treatment, than ever, for you

:57:32.:57:37.

and your family, and we know that working in mental health can be

:57:38.:57:42.

really stressful, so let's thank the remarkable mental health nurses the

:57:43.:57:47.

psychiatrists, chartists like the Samaritans, mind, many others..

:57:48.:57:52.

Volunteers, and the patients who fight stigma by speaking out about

:57:53.:57:55.

their conditions, they are changing things for the better, and we must

:57:56.:57:57.

recognise its today. APPLAUSE More on mental health later, but

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look now at A departments. The pressures are rarely far from the

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headlines. Everyone needs to know that they can get care quickly in an

:58:23.:58:27.

emergency. And although we `re seeing record numbers, it isn't good

:58:28.:58:33.

enough, that currently we are missing for our target, but what

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have we done? this we have set taller units. We

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have 1200 more doctors. And we treat around 2500 more people every few

:58:56.:59:05.

hours than we used to, so that is easy for National Health Service for

:59:06.:59:10.

you and your family. As you put this all together, you have the National

:59:11.:59:15.

Health Service doing every day 400 more operations than when this

:59:16.:59:23.

government came into power, broke cutting hospital infections by one

:59:24.:59:29.

side. Despite the pressures of an ageing population, we are ghving

:59:30.:59:34.

more treatment to more people than ever before. So, let us thank all

:59:35.:59:45.

the hospital workers -- doctors nurses, porters, cleaners, caterers

:59:46.:59:50.

and volunteers. The jobs ard tougher than I'll ever but they do ht

:59:51.:59:52.

brilliantly. And while we are thanking pdople,

:59:53.:00:14.

can a housekeeper personal one. I want to thank all the peopld in my

:00:15.:00:20.

department. The altered extdnding outstanding work before thex moved

:00:21.:00:23.

on in the summer. I am really lucky that I have such a talented new

:00:24.:00:41.

team. I am particularly thrhlled to Nicola, who took a brief brdak to

:00:42.:00:42.

get married. Many congratul`tions! That is much to be proud of in our

:00:43.:01:03.

National Health Service. We just heard James is heartbreaking story

:01:04.:01:11.

about the death of his baby son Do you know how many letters hd had to

:01:12.:01:15.

rate in six weeks to get thd two the bottom of what happened? 300 letters

:01:16.:01:25.

and 3000 e-mails. He should not have had to rate one of them let alone

:01:26.:01:31.

that many. But faced with the grieving father, instead of

:01:32.:01:37.

supporting him, the system pulled up the drawbridge is. Anyone of us

:01:38.:01:43.

could have been the same father the same period, so let us be clear

:01:44.:01:48.

closing ranks against peopld who want to know the truth about their

:01:49.:01:53.

loved ones has no place in the National Health Service. Thd lesser,

:01:54.:01:59.

her battle to save her son from sepsis, was not powerful? Whlliam

:02:00.:02:06.

lost his life. Melissa 's work has seized the lives of thousands of

:02:07.:02:11.

other babies. And how amazing was it of her to period just after having

:02:12.:02:18.

her warned new BB. Yes, we will launch the campaign. Her new BB

:02:19.:02:31.

I always give apologies on behalf of the government and the National

:02:32.:02:39.

Health Service. Even as the words leave my lips, I know the not

:02:40.:02:45.

enough. We want action, not words. In a democracy, no citizen should be

:02:46.:02:54.

rendered powerless by a powdrful organisation. That is why wd have

:02:55.:03:01.

changed the law to bring in candour in all hospitals, to be hondst with

:03:02.:03:07.

patients and brought in rathngs for hospitals, surgeries and hole

:03:08.:03:14.

doctors. All national health organisations are no published data

:03:15.:03:22.

with regard to how many people would recommend the key they recehved two

:03:23.:03:28.

friends. It all represents ` more caring National Health Servhce for

:03:29.:03:31.

you and your family. But if you really believe in it, you w`nted to

:03:32.:03:39.

be the best. Many will be shocked to know that according to independent

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research, every week in our hospitals, we have around 140

:03:45.:03:53.

avoidable deaths. That is the equivalent of the plane crashing

:03:54.:04:00.

every week. Then the harm that leaves people scoured for lhfe.

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Twice a week, each child is born with severe neurological injuries

:04:05.:04:09.

which could have been avoiddd and been disabled for life. Twice a week

:04:10.:04:14.

we operate in the wrong part of somebody's body. Last June, a major

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teaching hospital removed F`llopian tubes instead of an appendix. Other

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countries have the same isstes, often worse than others, actually.

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But why do we accept those kind of statistics as inevitable as we would

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never accept other industrids. This is not something which we are

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reading for science to Dewar. This is something we can sort out rate

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no. And that is what we are going to do. As James talked about, the

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legacy of mistakes. In this country, we have brilliant doctors. We have

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doctors learning from hard data out to save lives. Too often today, if

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something goes wrong, peopld are worried about litigation. Or perhaps

:05:21.:05:27.

the reputation of the hospital. The shutters come down and we dhd not do

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the real one thing which we do not have which we need to, which is

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having a frank and open discussion so that lessons are learned across

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the National Health Service so that we can eat blame culture but he ll

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lemming culture. We know th`t no one ever wants to make a mistakd. It

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shows that provision becausd they want to help people. We want to help

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them by dismantling the culture which prevents them talking openly

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and replace it with one which talks openly. We have set up the

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investigation Branch to makd sure we learn from mistakes. We are

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consulting on legislation to give doctors a safe place to spe`k freely

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and we will publish hospital 's own estimates of the overall st`tistics.

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Taking a changing culture t`kes time. But it is the only wax to

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build the transparent National Health Service to learn frol

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mistakes and build a better National Health Service for you and xour

:06:39.:06:42.

family. As I mentioned before, we need to do better on mental health.

:06:43.:06:49.

Most days, I try to reply pdrsonally to members of the public about the

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key and treatment. I got ond letter I will never forget from a file in

:06:57.:07:04.

Cumbria whose daughter was revealed after rating suicide notes.

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Fortunately, the -- unfortunately, the origins of her problem was not

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picked up quickly enough and the next day, she killed herself. There

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are 15 suicides every day. Dven worse, newly three quarters of them

:07:25.:07:30.

have not had any contact with the National Health Service mental

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health side for the previous year. No it is time to deal of it in

:07:38.:07:44.

improved suicide prevention strategy and a safe place which gives mental

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health the same priority as physical health for you and your famhly.

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Part of raising standards mdans improving the key on at weekends.

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Everyone should be confidently get the same high care every dax of the

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week. It is not acceptable that we have mortality rates up to 05%

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higher around weekends. Our seven-day hospital are simple. The

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Academy of Royal medical colleges meets for key standards. Ond says

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that whatever day of the wedk, highly vulnerable patients should be

:08:49.:08:51.

checked by a consultant twice a day because it is vital to spot quickly

:08:52.:08:58.

as someone deteriorates. But when we last checked, that happens hn just

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one in 20 hospitals. Another standard says that every dax of the

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week, patients should be chdcked by a senior doctor within 14 awards are

:09:10.:09:13.

being admitted to hospital. Again, when we checked in just one

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hospital, the standards are not being met. These are primarhly about

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consultants, but junior doctors especially more experienced ones,

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must play their part. Where will we are all pleased at this week 's

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strike has been called off, I see to the BMA untold junior doctors, let

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us not argue about statistics, the National Health Service you believe

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in is the same one we believe in. Start calling off the strikds and

:09:50.:09:54.

start working with us, so wd can deliver key seven days a wedk for

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everyone. Of course, for the National Health

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Service, money matters. For some reason, there is another quhck

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enough to go around. In our manifesto to reduce the defhcit we

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give it the most generous increase of the last year. More than doubled

:10:35.:10:37.

which Labour promised that the last election. But just rating a chick

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does not raise standards. L`bour tried it. America spends three times

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more per head than others. They have more avoidable harm in studhes.

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Affordable care does not cost more, it costs less. Every time a patient

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has a fall or an infection or develops a bit sore, they end up

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seeing in hospital longer, costing the National Health Service more.

:11:14.:11:20.

Serious errors cost us ?1.5 million in litigation fees every ye`r. That

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is not money spent on medichnes or doctors or nurses, but lawydrs and

:11:26.:11:31.

picking up the pieces when things go wrong. When you look at our safest

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hospitals or our best schools or police services, it is not `bout the

:11:40.:11:42.

level of funding by the quality of leadership. Leadership that supports

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doctors and nurses to learn from mistakes, leadership that m`kes a

:11:50.:11:53.

complex system seamless for patients, like joining up the health

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and social care system, leadership that says the key I want for my

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mother or father is the one I will give to my patients today. . That

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will do a very high quality national Health Service for you and xour

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family. My job is to prepard the NHS four that. That means to be doing

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something we have never dond properly before and that is training

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enough doctors. Currently, one quarter of our doctors are from

:12:29.:12:33.

overseas. They do a fantasthc job and the service would fall over

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without them. When it comes to those who are European Union nationals, we

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want them to stay. But lookhng forward, is it right to carry on

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importing doctors from cooldr countries that need them whhle we

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cannot wait undergraduates desperate to succeed. Even if we wantdd to

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carry on importing doctors, the supply is drying up. The world

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health organisation is seeing there is no a shortage of 2 million

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doctors worldwide. We are the fifth largest economy in the world. We

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should be training all of the doctors we need. Today, thex can

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tell you that is exactly wh`t we are going to do.

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From September 2018, we will train up to 1500 each year more doctors,

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increasing the number of medical school places by up to a qu`rter,

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but the biggest annual incrdase in medical school training in the

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history of the NHS. Of course, it will take a number of years before

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these students qualify but by the end of the next Parliament, we will

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make the NHS is self-suffichent in doctors. APPLAUSE

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Training a doctor costs over ?200,000. So in return, we'll ask

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the all-new doctors to work for the NHS for four years, just as army

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recruits are asked to come their training. The result will bd more

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home doctors, fewer roads are gaps, in a sector NHS looking aftdr you

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and your family for years to come. Bucks, conference... APPLAUSE

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Conference, a country that works for everyone takes special care of the

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public service closes to evdryone in 's heart, and that is our NHS.

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Today, I want the British pdople to know that nothing matters more to

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this government than protecting our NHS, and preparing it for the

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future. Yes, we are the country that discovered DNA, gave the world MRI

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scans, and thanks to our brhlliant universities, made soon discover a

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cure for dementia and HIV. Xes, we were the first in the world to say

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it doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, young or old, your falily s

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there should never depend on your family's money. But, for thd

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grandfather with a stroke, the giving birth, the child with sepsis,

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those are about quality as well as equity, standards as well as speed,

:15:43.:15:47.

dignity as well as delivery. And that's a big ask for those `lready

:15:48.:15:54.

working so hard on the front line. But a big ask based on one simple

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truth. The NHS they want is the NHS we all want, a safer, more

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responsive, more open, seven-day NHS, offering the highest standards

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of care for you, your familx, and every family in the country. That's

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our vision, that's our misshon, and nothing will stand on our w`y! Thank

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you. We now to need to move onto the next

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education section, but before hearing from Justine Greening, our

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secretary of State, we will hear from Jeff Shaw. Thank you. Back Lee

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Mack -- Jess Shaw. Hello, I'm just sure, a marketing executive at the

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ditzy, one of the leading IT companies in the UK but I dhd not

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know what I wanted to do at college and I did not want to go to

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university. I am so happy to have chosen to do an apprentice ship in

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marketing and that discoverdd this is the definite career for le.

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Recently Fujitsu attended a trade show. I thought we should t`rget

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audience are directly and I thought therefore it would be a gre`t idea

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to sponsor Twitter. We were received lots of tweets and this helped us

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build relationships with our customers. Being an apprenthce and

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given so fantastic opportunhties I am proud of, and standing in front

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of you all is one of them. This is why I believe apprenticeships are

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such a fantastic opportunitx for a lots of young people. That hs me.

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first of all I'd like to th`nk Jess for that great introduction. Our

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opportunity and agenda is all about fantastic young people like Jess

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getting fantastic experiencds. As a Conservative, when I looked out at

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where we have had the biggest impact in government, there is one area

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that really stands out. And that is education. Through a lot of hard

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work, not least of it from teachers, we have come a very, very long way.

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Thanks to the reforms carridd out by Michael Gove and Nicky Morg`n, we

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have seen standards raised, and 1.4 million more children in good, or

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outstanding schools. In higher education, the global rankings now

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show our universities right at the very top with record numbers of

:20:08.:20:12.

young people applying. Cruchally, over the last six and a half years,

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we have seen a real renaiss`nce in apprenticeships. Well over two and a

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half million of them, since 201 . So, we've much to be proud of, and

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that is why as Secretary of State for Education, I am very cldar that

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these reforms must continue. And I'm working with a great team of

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ministers. Nick Gibb, Edward Timpson, Robert Halfon. Caroline

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dying age, Joe Johnson, and in the Lords, Lord Nash. And there are

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still an awful lot more work to do. As Opera Minister set out, our

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party's mission is to make our country one that works for dveryone,

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not just the privileged few. To give people control over the things that

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matter most, in their lives. And education is at the heart of our

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ambition, it's how we make Britain. A true aristocracy. To me, ht's not

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just about the most disadvantaged families, it's more than th`t.

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Because all parents have thdir hopes and dreams for their childrdn, but

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in practice for most they c`n never really take their eye off the

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day-to-day realities of everyday life. And what is it like for the

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children in those families? Well, I was one of them. Growing up in

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Rotherham, in the 80s. And when I look back to my childhood, `ll I

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wanted was a level playing field. I didn't expect any more, but I didn't

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think I should expect any ldss, either, and neither did my parents.

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And nowhere was that more ilportant to me than in my education. I

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absolutely love going to school Kerry Thorpe primary, Oakwood

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comprehensive, the Thomas Rotherham College, the first commented school

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-- spate educated minister for education, I want to thank the

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system. We all remember our great teachers, and no other profdssion

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has the power to transform future is so much. My job, our job now is to

:22:37.:22:45.

make sure that today's children whatever their background, get the

:22:46.:22:49.

best start, and to me that leans three things. Knowledge and skills,

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the right advice at the right time, and thirdly, great, challenging

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like stripping experiences. These are the building blocks to help

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young people be successful hn their years ahead. And that is whx we have

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put responsibility for earlx years and schools further and higher

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education, adult schools and apprenticeships or under ond roof.

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In one department. I think we have never had a better chance to make a

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difference for our children and young people come and look `t what

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we are already doing! Doublhng childcare. Doubling free chhldcare

:23:33.:23:37.

for parents of three and four-year-olds, creating 3 lillion

:23:38.:23:41.

new apprenticeships for young people. And for those who w`nt to go

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to university, for the very first time, we have removed the hhstoric

:23:47.:23:53.

caprine university places. Now, if university wants to offer a place,

:23:54.:23:56.

to a student, and if they gdt the grades, they can go. And we are also

:23:57.:24:03.

opening up 500 brand-new frde schools by the end of 2020. Because

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having more good schools and more good school places for children is

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absolutely vital, and espechally disadvantaged children. The Academy

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reforms of the last 15 years the ones. But now we need to crdate more

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capacity in the system. We talk about pretend lotteries, but unless

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you can afford to move to the right area, education has been thd

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ultimate postcode lottery. That is why our green paper is asking how we

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can create more great school places in more parts of the countrx,

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including selective places. I talked about a level playing field. Grammar

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schools have a track record of closing the attainment gap between

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children on free school meals, and they're better off classmatds, that

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is because in grammars thosd driven on free school meals progress twice

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as fast as the other childrdn. So the gap disappears. And 99% of

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grammars are rated good or outstanding. But in spite of this,

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Labour's approach to grammars is to close the school down. And

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conference it's rank hypocrhsy. Because Labour ministers send their

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children to grammars, too. @nd it's classic labour. Do as I say not as I

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do. Conservatives believe that we should

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support parental choice, not ignore it. Local areas who want more

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grammar places should be able to have them, and similarly, local

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areas you want to stick with their existing schools, they are happy

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with, they will be able to do that too, and unlike at present, we will

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challenge grammars and selective schools to work much harder at

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getting more disadvantaged pupils through their doors. We will

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challenge them to show that they can also improve the schools around

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them, and we all know that's children develop at different

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speeds, so let's be flexibld on which age children can go to

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grammars. So let's be clear. This is not about a return to the 10 plus,

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and our universities, our independent schools, and our faith

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schools will have their part to play too, working with other schools in

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the system. All of this is `bout more and better choices for parents,

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but I want us to improve choices for students, too. We have got lore

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young people going into higher education than ever before, and

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critically, more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. H was the

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first person in my family to go to university, and I know how luch it

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transformed my own prospects full stop but, for many young people in

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our country, university won't be the path that they will necessarily want

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to take, like Jess. They might not want a purely academic routd, they

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might prefer a technical ond. Last year 48% of our young peopld went to

:27:33.:27:39.

university, but 50% didn't. And for too long the technical educ`tion

:27:40.:27:45.

they want hasn't been good dnough. We've already set about changing

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this, with our skills plan, and this will be a big focus for me, as

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secretary of state, because I'm really determined to put thd quality

:27:56.:27:59.

of technical education on a par with the quality of our academic

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education. APPLAUSE The parts we really need to pull

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together are the work of thd further education colleges up and down the

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country. University technic`l colleges...

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They are doing so much work on skills, and also the huge extra

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investment in a apprenticeships now from our biggest companies was up

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yes it is about knowledge and reformed, stretching, rigorous,

:28:40.:28:44.

academic curriculum. It is now matching the best in the world, but

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it is also about skills, crdative skills, problem solving, te`m

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working, the skills that employers, that British is this needs. --

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British business. We are transforming academic, and we must

:29:03.:29:05.

do so for technical education, because we need a world-class

:29:06.:29:07.

education system working for everyone and for all of our young

:29:08.:29:12.

people. And all of this has at its heart a mission, a mission to make

:29:13.:29:19.

ours the country where we rdmove the barriers stopping people from being

:29:20.:29:25.

the best that they can be. The great meritocracy, opportunity Brhtain, a

:29:26.:29:29.

levelled up Britain. It doesn't matter what you call it. Thhs

:29:30.:29:34.

country's greatest asset is its people. So unlocking potenthal, and

:29:35.:29:40.

levelling up opportunity in our country is Britain's greatest

:29:41.:29:50.

generational challenge. When everyone does even a bit better our

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country does a lot better. So the final part of what I want to say is

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focused on the children and the young people who are the very

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furthest away from having that level playing field and opportunity.

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Knowledge and skills, the r`te advice and great life experhences.

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I will work with great organisations and with help we are going to make

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sure that young people in opportunities are plugged in to an

:32:25.:32:25.

amazing experience. I want to see businesses polishing

:32:26.:32:52.

up the talents of a new gendration. The rough diamonds, to make sure we

:32:53.:32:56.

unlock the talent of everyone in the country. Especially the children in

:32:57.:33:02.

these opportunity areas where it is most likely to be messed. That is

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why we are about to hear from Caroline. Business has such a strong

:33:07.:33:13.

role to play. Setting the s`fe side of young people it is very hard to

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infer an opportunity if you do not know it is there. That is why the

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CBI have agreed to get behind these and I want to see more local

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enterprise partnerships involved in this in the years and months ahead.

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I want them to work with local councils and local communithes. What

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I have talked about is very hard to do. Generational issues do not get

:33:50.:33:54.

fixed overnight. But we havd got to make a start and that is wh`t these

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first opportunity areas are all about. As Conservatives, we know

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that the most precious opportunity and commodity is opportunitx. These

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1 million children who are locked out have just as much talent as any

:34:14.:34:19.

other children in our country. We all it to them and to ourselves to

:34:20.:34:26.

unlock it. In our country, driving social mobility is not just the

:34:27.:34:30.

right thing to do, it is absolutely essential if we are to be stccessful

:34:31.:34:36.

in today's world. A river mtch uncertainty that is unclear, one

:34:37.:34:40.

thing is certain, that is that Britain is going to have to be at

:34:41.:34:44.

the top of its game if we are going to succeed. We will only re`ch the

:34:45.:34:50.

potential of the country whdn these children reach the ears. Just

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because it is complicated it does not mean it is beyond us as a

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country. It is not. Our party has always run towards these big

:35:01.:35:05.

generational issues, never `way from them. That is what we stand for A

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country where anyone can succeed. It is the Conservative Party that is

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going to lead that. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to know give

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give a warm welcome to Caroline from the CBI.

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Thank you so much for joining me on stage today. And thank you for

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getting involved in our working opportunities area. Why do xou think

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it is so important that we get these opportunities and what Brithsh

:36:21.:36:26.

business can bring to them? Firstly, I would like to see how good it is

:36:27.:36:31.

to be here today to give our support from CBI the on focusing on pack

:36:32.:36:39.

practical ideas at the ground level. In my first year at the CBI I have

:36:40.:36:46.

talked so much to business who have said raising standards in education

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are the most important factor to them. It is about the prospdrity and

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productivity of our country. We have done work over the last year about

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the differences in productivity between regions. There are too many

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parts of the country which `re fallen behind. One of the strongest

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drivers of productivity differences as attainment at 16. It is the

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ability of schools to work with young people to drive that. The

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reason I am so excited to bd here today is that you are talking about

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practical opportunities for businesses to work with govdrnment.

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There is a lot going on alrdady I talked to the Dyson foundathon and

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many other groups. The is so much more that can be done. What business

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can do is help inspire and help link information, so that everyone knows

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what skills are needed. At the end of the day, we want to create great

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opportunities for young people. What sort of skills to young people need

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to be coming out of the education system with? Especially with regard

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to the Brexit Britain we ard facing. It is all about leaving school and

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being ready to work. Employdrs say it has as much about attitude and

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understanding what working hn collaboration and working in

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teamwork are all about. The other side of it is the set of skhlls that

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young people will need for ` new world. Brexit Or not, the economy is

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changing. We know that talkhng to our members, they need highdr skills

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for the future. We need enghneering skills, problem solving skills. That

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is really what we're talking about doing, preparing a new genddr

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generation for a new world of work. Policies for getting out into the

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work environment but also tdchnical skills for the New World. Over time,

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due think the attitude of British business towards working with the

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education sector is changing? A sense of how we can make thhs to the

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top of the week race? You t`lked about the country is doing fantastic

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work with apprenticeships. We want to make that the norm rather than

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the exception? Absolutely. H am very struck by the businesses seding what

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more can we do? That is why it is so welcome. That is why it is so

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important there are things going on in local regions. Many businesses

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are trying things out. Thesd are working with local enterprise is a

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very important part of the picture. But it is rather piecemeal, so I

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think we need to create new models in these areas we have identified,

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we can bring to the ground very exciting opportunities so it's

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useless as if it is a bit more of a framework around it. One of the

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questions I wanted to ask w`s what you are looking for from business in

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this new environment? How c`n we help to bring our members in on this

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in a week which really works with what you are trying to do? Part of

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it is allowing young people to get a sense of the world though the and

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the huge opportunities that business the huge opportunities that business

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presents. I remember when I was doing my exams, never thought about

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doing anything to do with the legal business. But when children are

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looking at what they want to do in the future life, that is very

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important, but the other important thing is getting new experidnces and

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getting young people getting in early experiences of being hn the

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workplace. An experience of the world of work that the appe`rance

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great to every day. It is all about mentoring. It is important to me

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that they get encouragement. They get that in the classroom, but it

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would be very powerful for them to get that from the business sector,

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to tell them to set their shghts high. That is what I am hearing and

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seeing. One of our members has been working with schools for a long time

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and has started moving into primary schools. They are having

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conversations with children who are beginning to think about thd

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interests in science and other subjects. What we are able to talk

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about is these amazing systdms they are developing, the likes of drawn

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technology, which actually hnspired a severely young age and I think

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that is a big part of it. Btsiness will do that govern the right

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opportunity. As you start sdeing young people taking an interest in

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these new areas? We have sedn a huge interest in the likes of guhlt doing

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mathematics. Do you think there are more career choices? Definitely We

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have just been doing work whth the RSA about the whole scheme `genda.

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It is very exciting. Again, it is about the excitement of 3-D

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printing, the excitement of new digital technology. And the more

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that we can sure rather than tell, the more the better. My mother was a

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teacher, so I know the challenges of managing a curriculum when xou are

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having to teach to a certain set of rules. I think it would be really

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worth thinking about is how it can be made easy to create a sp`ce in

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the curriculum for a lot of showing, a lot of inspiration, to make it

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easier for schools to adapt to this. From the perspective of the CBI how

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do you go about evaluating what they are all doing? With regard to how we

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try and skill this up across the country? A lot of our members are

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leading the lawn work experhence, leading to internships. We can help

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to bring the information to them. One thing we could be better at in

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the future is giving more a sense of the demand side, we have spdnt time

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talking about the supplied side and schools, but I am not sure that we

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have always been as good as we could be about communicating back what

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these skill needs of businesses going forward, and I think one of

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the exciting things is now industrial strategy is firmly on the

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agenda, and this idea of actually thinking forward and having a

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strategic plan for a sector, how that can then come back and give a

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clearer idea of what kind of skills would be needed in the VJ, `nd how

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some of that might actually be really local, so I would like to

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think with you as part of this opportunity areas how we can get

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better, talking about what we need in the future for different kinds of

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skills. So, we need to look ahead, plan ahead, and start Sedlex sort of

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changing what we are talking to children about in terms of

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opportunity, so they are re`dy for the ones they will be compotnded

:45:11.:45:16.

within the future, rather than. . Yes, I think that's exactly right.

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So many of the things we ard going to be good at in the future are

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happening today, they are h`ppening today, and if we can take them into

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our schools, we can show thdm that you know, the high-tech of the

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feature that actually manuf`cturing is an exciting career to go into.

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Digital technology is everywhere, and we show it, I believe wd can

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inspire a new direct -- gendration, and if we can do that together, if

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our members who are so keen to be involved in this handy that, we

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would really be delighted to do it. Thank you very much for comhng on

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stage, it's been brilliant. The and I think that the end of the

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education session. Thank yot very much, everybody, for coming to it.

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