Tristram Hunt MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, responding to publication of school performance tables said:

“Both parents and teenagers will be greatly concerned by chaos in the exam system brought about by David Cameron’s schools policy. It is taking the country backwards and threatening standards. Parents deserve to know exactly how their child’s school is performing – but under this Tory-led Government, all they’ve got is confusion surrounding school results year on year.

“Labour will reverse the damage that this Tory-led Government is doing to standards. We will end David Cameron’s unqualified teachers policy, introduce new local Directors of School Standards in all areas of the country to deliver a tough new system of local oversight for all state schools, and transform vocational education, with a new gold standard Technical Baccalaureate for 16 to 19-year-olds.”