Visit to Boswells and Columbus School College

Some thoughts on my visit to Boswells and Columbus School College, earlier this week -  and to hear from students and staff how happy they are to be back. Thank you to all children, parents and staff and an especial thank you to the volunteers helping with the covid tests at Boswells, making sure we do everything we can to keep covid out of the classroom.

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Our schools, colleges and university are exceptional. I fight for fairer funding for all.

Essex MPs successfully campaigned for fairer funding for our schools and next year funding for our Chelmsford schools will increase by over 6%.  Well up on the national average of 4%.

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Every year, MPs welcome hundreds of schoolchildren to Parliament and always try to meet visitors from the constituency to talk about the politics and history of Westminster, the work of an MP and about local issues.

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