One GCSE target is ‘shameful’

25th March 2011, 12:00am

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One GCSE target is ‘shameful’

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Children’s commissioner Keith Towler has attacked the minimum attainment target for looked-after children of one GCSE as “shameful”. In an interview with BBC Wales Mr Towler said it was a “ridiculously low” aspiration, but the Welsh Local Government Association said the target did not give the whole picture.

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