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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

Before the Minister sits down, I seek clarification on her response to Amendment 52. She says that she will come back at Third Reading, but that she opposes the idea of having a formal assessment when the young person leaves detention—let us say at the six-month stage. As my noble friend Lady Garden said, we share the Minister’s hesitation about too much assessment. Nevertheless, during the educational process of those young people, a lot of testing—what teachers call diagnostic testing—takes place. I take it that she is suggesting that when they leave detention, a report should be issued by whoever has been providing that education, giving some assessment of what has been achieved in educational terms during the period of detention, based on the diagnostic testing that will have taken place. Am I right?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
714 c76-7 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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