While the Government, during the election campaign, were denying that there was a Crisis in Teacher Vacancies, Anwell Jones, the deputy head teacher of Ashford high school in Surrey, was warning: "The quality of supply staff is so uneven that it has an effect on pupil behaviour.

One of the first priorities of the Secretary of State must surely be to ensure that standards in our schools do not suffer as a result of the Crisis of Teacher Vacancies, yet there is nothing in the Gracious Speech to address the issue; nor is there any sign of the urgent action that needs to be taken to restore the morale of the teaching profession.