MP: Review guidance so data on racist incidents in schools can be acted upon

Labour MP Janet Daby warned ‘there are things where the Government has gone backward rather than going forward’.

Labour MP Janet Daby (Yui Mok/PA) (PA Archive)

Ministers should commit to review education guidance “so data on racist incidents in schools can once again be collected and acted on”, a Labour MP has suggested.

Janet Daby warned “there are things where the Government has gone backward rather than going forward” as she raised the issue during her Westminster Hall debate on racial discrimination in schools.

The MP for Lewisham East said the “welfare of the child is paramount” adding: “That begins by accepting that its guidance in 2012 and 2017 was wrong.”