SECONDARY SCHOOL ATTAINMENT IN BRADFORD

That this House views with the deepest alarm the latest results for secondary school attainment in Bradford where just 44 per cent of pupils sitting GCSEs gained five or more A to C levels; notes that this ranks the city's results equal second bottom of 151 local authorities; points out that two-in-three students attend schools rated less than good; further notes that, according to Ofsted, the standards of literacy at 16 are among the lowest in England; totally dismisses the argument that poor education outcomes are because many pupils have English as a second language and notes that in Tower Hamlets, with an almost identical profile of children from non-native speaking homes, results are among the best in the country; concludes that those who have been running education in Bradford for almost five years and have presided over worsening educational results are unfit for the job and should resign; and calls on the Government to urgently recognise the crisis in Bradford and to take special measures akin to the London Challenge so that children in the city are no longer disadvantaged by the schools they are forced into.