Commenting on the government's response to the Education Select Committee's report on white working-class pupils, which advises schools not to teach "contested views about 'white privilege’" as fact, Natalie Arnett, senior equalities officer at school leaders’ union NAHT, said:

"We need to trust schools to have the conversations with pupils that are right for their contexts and communities. Simplistic diktats like this from central government are unhelpful."