Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

My Lords, I shall not reiterate what I said in Committee. I understand the concern of the noble Baroness that a teacher should never be put in the position of having to make a report when they know that it would put a child at risk. The Government would never want to precipitate that situation. To guard against that eventuality, I commit to returning at Third Reading with a compromise that the noble Baroness, Lady Verma, could consider, giving head teachers the discretion to making a report to social services rather than to the parents. We agree and make it clear that we intend to consult teaching unions, head teachers and children’s rights groups to get this right.