John Nash

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  • Apr.16.2018: Segregating pupils with special educational needs leaves us all poorer. Policies that seek to push these children out of mainstream schools are turning back the clock to a nastier age. We all know what modern English education policy is all about: results, league tables, a fixation with “discipline”. The stupid Tory obsession with grammar schools is of a piece with that. Where, you wonder, does Special Needs education fit in. The beginnings of an answer, perhaps, lie in a govt announcement in 2017 that under the auspices of the Free Schools programme, there are to be 19 new “special free schools”, providing “high quality provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities”, to add to around 30 free schools that have already opened. Some councils’ policies are seemingly starting to reflect similar logic. If this causes anyone disquiet, they should get in touch with a pressure group called Allfie – the Alliance for Inclusive Education. “What we’re fighting against is segregated education,” one of their staff members told me this week. “We’re talking about an ideological drive." John Harris, The Guardian. See https://www.gov.uk/government/news/applications-open-to-create-1600-new-special-free-school-places, sponsored by the DfE and Lord Nash.
  • Jul.17.2016: New ministerial and govt appointments announced. More ministerial and govt appointments including Parliamentary Under Secretaries of State and Whips have been announced. Lord Nash as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Education. Number 10 Downing Street.
  • Jan.14.2010: Andrew Lansley bankrolled by private healthcare provider. John Nash, the chairman of Care UK plc, gave £21,000 to fund Andrew Lansley's personal office in Nov. Mr Nash, a private equity tycoon, also manages several other businesses providing services to the NHS and stands to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of Conservative policies to increase the use of private health providers. A senior director of the firm said that 96% of Care UK's business, which amounted to more than £400m last year, came from the NHS. Holly Watt, Rosa Prince, The Telegraph.