A Crisis in Teacher Morale has been caused by 18 years of constant denigration and change with which the profession has had to cope.

The Crisis in Teacher Morale is resulting in more posts being filled by unqualified teachers, more qualified teachers being forced to teach subjects for which they have no appropriate subject qualification, and more teachers coming from abroad on short-term contracts.

The Crisis in Teacher Morale is unprecedented, and the problems of education are spelled out in the extraordinary book by Chris Woodhead, which was referred to by my hon. Friend the Member for South Norfolk and which I have had the pleasure of reading.