Ed Balls is set to use this month's publication of the Children's Plan to elaborate on a major shake-up of prison education. In a historic move, the secretary of state for Children, Schools and Families wants to give local authorities responsibility for custodial learning, taking it away from the proliferation of piecemeal providers that currently supply the service.

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