Speech: Justine Greening: teachers - the experts driving social mobility

Thank you, Alison [Peacock, CEO of the Chartered College of Teaching].It’s such a pleasure to be here at the inaugural national conference of the Chartered College of Teaching. I think today marks an historic step change for the teaching profession.And I wanted to talk to you - not just about what I think about teaching - but also how I feel about the teaching profession. I belong to a profession too - I’m an accountant. That’s what I trained in and the job I did before I got i