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Ensuring everyone in Gosport, Stubbington, Lee-on-the-Solent and Hill Head has access to the best education and training is essential to the future of the area.

Caroline wants all children to get the best possible start in life. She fought against Sure Start Children's Centre closures, raising her concerns in Parliament and locally. In 2016, Caroline was appointed Minister for Women, Equalities and Early Years and was responsible for the implementation of 30 hours free childcare.

Since becoming elected, Caroline has visited all of the schools and colleges in her constituency, meeting with hundreds of teachers and pupils to discuss their achievements and the challenges they face. She has also welcomed many local schools and home education groups to Parliament, taking part in lively Q&A sessions with pupils of all ages. Caroline played an important role in securing new sports facilities at Bay House and Bridgemary Schools.

In 2019, Caroline won the star prize in a digital currency competition, winning £10,000 for local schools which she divided amongst them.

She took part in the campaign to keep children safe online as a member of the Parliamentary Inquiry into Child Safety Online and held a Cyber Safety event to help parents be confident with digital parenting.

Caroline has hosted many events for senior school pupils surrounding enterprise and business, welcoming Baroness Karren Brady to Bay House School and Jacqueline Gold CBE and a cohort of successful local businesswomen to Bridgemary School.

She has strived to encourage more girls into STEM and is a keen supporter of Gomer Junior School’s gSTEM project, bringing ministers to see the learning in action. In 2019, the then Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds, accepted her invitation to meet with local head teachers and open the Gosport STEM Centre.

Caroline helped to secure funding for CEMAST, which trains over 1100 engineering students annually. Caroline also backed the funding bid to build CETC based at Daedalus, offering practical training so that apprentices are 'work ready' after an intensive 20 week training course. She took the then Skills Minister, Anne Milton, to see their unique model.

She has promoted apprenticeship schemes throughout the area and completed her own mini-apprenticeship at Costa Coffee. She ran a campaign to shine a light on the diversity of apprenticeships in the Gosport constituency, and invited learners to Parliament to meet the then Apprenticeships and Skills Minister, the Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP

Believing that educational opportunities should be available to people whatever their age, Caroline worked hard to save adult education resources when the Rowner RSR closed and was delighted to help secure the new service at the Nimrod Centre. The project was hailed as a European example of excellence and a blueprint for other adult education schemes. The project moved to St Vincent College in 2018 rebranded as "Choices @ The Clocktower".

Through her engagement with Gosport based reading programme 'We CAN Read', Caroline developed a passion for boosting basic skills among the adult population. She led a landmark debate in the House of Commons on adult literacy and numeracy and played a key role in securing a BIS Select Committee Inquiry into adult literacy and numeracy issues. She also formed an All Party Parliamentary Group for Maths and Numeracy with cross party support and was Co-Chair of the group.

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Caroline Joins Celebrities To Improve Kids’ Literacy

Tuesday, 4 May, 2021

Gosport MP, Caroline Dinenage, is joining celebrities such as Sandi Toksvig and Stephen Fry to promote the ‘Turn On The Subtitles’ campaign to improve children’s literacy skills across the Gosport Constituency.

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Caroline Seeks to Reassure Parents on School Testing

Thursday, 11 March, 2021

Gosport MP, Caroline Dinenage, is today seeking to reassure parents and pupils across Gosport, Hill Head, Stubbington and Lee-on-the-Solent about the accuracy of COVID-19 lateral flow tests that are being used in schools and colleges across the constituency.

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#ShowYourShares For World Book Day

Thursday, 4 March, 2021

For World Book Day (March 4th) Gosport MP, Caroline Dinenage, is encouraging constituents to join her and share their favourite books and stories.

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Education Secretary Explains Summer 2021 Exams Arrangement

Thursday, 25 February, 2021

Local MP, Caroline Dinenage, has welcomed the Education Secretary announcement today that students will receive grades awarded and determined by teachers, with pupils only assessed on what they have been taught.

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Cash Boost For Schools COVID-19 Catch Up

Wednesday, 24 February, 2021

Today, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced a £700 million cash boost for schools as pupils return to face-to-face education on March 8th.

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Bay House To Benefit From Refurbishments

Monday, 8 February, 2021

Local secondary and sixth form college Bay House is one of the first fifty schools in England to benefit from funding to help them refurbished the school.

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Caroline Urges Constituents To Stay Safe Online

Monday, 8 February, 2021

This Safer Internet Day (February 9th) Gosport MP, Caroline Dinenage, is urging constituents to take steps to keep themselves and loved ones safe online.

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Caroline Encourages Constituents To Have Their Say In Exams Consultation

Friday, 22 January, 2021

Gosport MP, Caroline Dinenage, is encouraging constituents across Gosport, Hill Head, Stubbington and Lee-on-the-Solent to take part in the Department of Education’s consultation on GCSE, AS and A level grade assessments this Summer.

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Caroline Contacts Schools For Anti-Bullying Week

Monday, 9 November, 2020

Next week, Anti-Bullying Week 2020 will raise awareness about the harm that bullying behaviour has under the theme ‘United Against Bullying.’

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Caroline Encourages Constituents To Get Numbers Confident

Thursday, 29 October, 2020

This Number Confidence Week Gosport MP, Caroline Dinenage, is encouraging constituents to get involved and take the National Numeracy Challenge.

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