Education Bill 2006
Along with fellow Labour MPs Estelle Morris, John Denham and Martin Salter, Dr Whitehead co-wrote the so-called alternative education white paper 'Shaping the Education Bill- Reaching for Consensus,' which criticised the weakening of the role of Local Education Authorities in the provision of education services and called for the schools admissions code to be made mandatory. He voted for the Bill when Alan Johnson, the new Education Secretary, accepted many of the alternative white paper’s proposals.
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