Hello everyone. Thanks so much for being here, thanks so much for coming.

And thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to put today together.

It’s great to be here in the south west, with leaders from schools and trusts, to talk about the children of this region.

Their learning, their futures, and their life chances.

And I hope you’ll find today is an opportunity to come together, to take stock and to think carefully about what more we can do for the young people in your classrooms.

I know so many of you already deliver so much, helping them to achieve and thrive.

So I want to say a huge thank you.

You and your staff transform lives. I visit schools and I see it in the children, I hear it from the parents, I feel it on results day.

The difference that all of you here in this ro

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