SOUTH Swindon MP Anne Snelgrove will be speaking about the controversial Education Bill next week.

Mrs Snelgrove was appointed to consider the Education and Inspections bill when it passed its second reading in the House of Commons in March.

It is now in the hands of the standing committee, of which Mrs Snelgrove is a member, for detailed clause-by-clause examination.

The MP has spoken many times in the committee drawing on her past experience as a former teacher, LEA education adviser and former vice-chairwoman of an education committee and on representations made by schools and others in Swindon.

She intends to make speeches in the third reading of the Bill next week. "This is the most important piece of legislation for Swindon this session, if we get this right it means the life chances of all children will improve," said Mrs Snelgrove.

"While I welcome the improvements children, parents and teachers have helped attain since 1997, we have to go further."

The bill would create a new generation of trust schools modelled on city academies and managed by charitable trusts.