RUSHES: Bridget Phillipson interview

Bridget Phillipson interview; ENGLAND: London: Westminster: INT Bridget Phillipson MP (Education Secretary) interview SOT What are you trying to achieve with the children's bill? - The legislation that we're setting out today is the single biggest piece of child protection legislation in a generation. So it's about making sure that we keep children safe, that we know where they are and the action is taken. We've had a lot of discussion in recent days about what's needed to protect children. This is the action that's required some multi agency teams, registers of children not in school and making sure we've got visibility so that children don't fall between the cracks. Will you introduce big changes to academies, specifically on teachers pay and on the national Curriculum. Is your aim to start getting rid of academies? - No, I believe that academies have been a crucial part of how we've made changes in this country, how we've given children a good education. But there is a lot more that we need to do.