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2005-06

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Education and Inspections Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory notes HL Bill 116-EN also published.
Thursday, 25 May 2006
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Lord Adonis | 684 c765 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may assist the noble Baroness. If she goes on with her reading of Clause 6, she will see t...

Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 684 c765 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 44: Page 4, line 16, at end insert ““enter into partnerships with other public...

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Baroness Buscombe | 684 c763-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for her full response to the questions posed, and thank all noble Lords who hav...

Earl of Listowel | 684 c763 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has already responded to the questions but I should like quickly to highlight a concern...

Lord Lucas | 684 c763 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful and shall remain optimistic. I really hope that this works.

Baroness Crawley | 684 c762-3 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, finds the examples depressing. It will be the SIP’s role...

Lord Lucas | 684 c762 (Link to this contribution) I was going to say that I very much hope that the noble Lord, Lord Dearing, will pursue that amendme...

Baroness Crawley | 684 c761-2 (Link to this contribution) As we are in Committee, perhaps I can reply to the noble Lord, Lord Dearing and then the noble Lord,...

Lord Lucas | 684 c761 (Link to this contribution) I very much—

Lord Dearing | 684 c761 (Link to this contribution) Those replies were very helpful. I thank the Minister. On my second amendment, on time, all that the...

Baroness Morgan of Huyton | 684 c748 (Link to this contribution) We might be getting this a bit out of proportion. My experience is that this sort of role exists now...

Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 684 c748 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to wind up at this point, but I have one more question for the Minister. She mentione...

Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 684 c747 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I may also be forgiven for intervening here, as this is very much on one of the points t...

Baroness Crawley | 684 c743-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak first to Amendment No. 27 and then to Amendments Nos. 37, 38 and 40, all of which seek...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 684 c746-7 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the Minister for asking her these questions after she has spoken, although I believe ...

Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 684 c741-3 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 27: Page 3, line 22, leave out subsection (1) and insert- ““( ) A local educat...

Viscount Ullswater | 684 c743 (Link to this contribution) I must advise the Committee that if this amendment is agreed to I will be unable to call Amendments ...

Baroness Crawley | 684 c749 (Link to this contribution) Fifty-one.

Lord Northbourne | 684 c738 (Link to this contribution) I share the view that the issues raised in this debate are hugely important, but I shall not delay t...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 684 c738 (Link to this contribution) I shall pursue two questions with the Minister very quickly. First, he gave very encouraging figures...

Lord Adonis | 684 c738 (Link to this contribution) We are indeed considering placing vulnerable children in boarding schools where that would be approp...

Baroness Walmsley | 684 c738-9 (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Lord, Lord Judd, withdraws his amendment—or perhaps he will not—I will respond on m...

Lord Lucas | 684 c737 (Link to this contribution) I have a couple of questions arising from what the noble Lord has said. He referred to Section 19(1)...

Lord Adonis | 684 c737 (Link to this contribution) It may be helpful if I respond to that specific point. Pupil referral units are inspected by Ofsted,...

Lord Dearing | 684 c739 (Link to this contribution) I shall ask a very brief question. Does Ofsted inspect the quality of the provision of education to ...

Earl of Listowel | 684 c739 (Link to this contribution) I shall not detain the Committee for more than a moment, but I had not realised that the Government ...

Lord Judd | 684 c740-1 (Link to this contribution) There will be general agreement that this has been a particularly good debate. I would like to expre...

Lord Lucas | 684 c755-6 (Link to this contribution) I would love to know where; that would be a great help. Secondly, what is happening to Amendment No...

Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham | 684 c756 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendments in this group, particularly the probing Amendments Nos. 33 and 35, and I sh...

Lord Sutherland of Houndwood | 684 c758 (Link to this contribution) I, too, support Amendments Nos. 33 and 35, because they are essential safeguards if we are to go ahe...

Baroness Crawley | 684 c758-9 (Link to this contribution) This group of amendments is about aspects of the appointment of school improvement partners. I shall...

Lord Dearing | 684 c756-7 (Link to this contribution) I have tabled Amendments Nos. 35 and 42 in this group, which I shall discuss together. The first con...

Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 684 c757-8 (Link to this contribution) These Benches have great sympathy with the two amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Dearing. Th...

Baroness Walmsley | 684 c761 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Minister can clarify something that she has just said. Is the money for all this extra w...

Baroness Crawley | 684 c761 (Link to this contribution) In the case of a current head, the extra money would go to the school. Perhaps it will be clearer if...

Baroness Buscombe | 684 c759 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister honestly believe that that kind of under-achievement will be sorted out in an aver...

Baroness Crawley | 684 c759-60 (Link to this contribution) As training and professional development allow for high standards of peer review for SIPs, if a scho...

Baroness Crawley | 684 c749-50 (Link to this contribution) I shall reply to the question of the noble Baroness, Lady Sharp, to begin with. Where a former head ...

Baroness Walmsley | 684 c750 (Link to this contribution) How much will these people be paid? The amount of money being put aside indicates that it is about £...

Baroness Crawley | 684 c750 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to write to the noble Baroness about the details of pay. The payment systems will be...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 684 c750 (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister deals with conflict, I asked whether not only maintained schools would be requir...

Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 684 c751 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for responding at length to all our questions. I am also grateful to t...

Baroness Buscombe | 684 c751-5 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 28: Page 3, line 22, leave out from beginning to first ““a”” in line 23 and in...

Viscount Ullswater | 684 c755 (Link to this contribution) I must advise your Lordships that if this amendment is agreed to, I will be unable to call Amendment...

Lord Lucas | 684 c755 (Link to this contribution) I have a number of amendments in this group, and by and large they support what my noble friend has ...

Lord Adonis | 684 c755 (Link to this contribution) It is published.

Baroness Walmsley | 684 c724-7 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to Amendments Nos. 24, 26 and 26A standing in my name and that of my noble friend La...

Lord Judd | 684 c723-4 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 23: Page 3, leave out line 8. The noble Lord said: In moving Amendment No. 23...

Baroness Darcy de Knayth | 684 c732-3 (Link to this contribution) Having put my name to Amendment No. 26, I wish to add a warm word of support to those so cogently sp...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 684 c730-2 (Link to this contribution) I follow with great appreciation the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, and the noble Ear...

Baroness Thornton | 684 c729-30 (Link to this contribution) I speak in support of Amendment No. 26, to which I have added my name. One year and several months o...

Earl of Listowel | 684 c727-9 (Link to this contribution) I support Amendments Nos. 24 and 26. I apologise to the Committee if I have to slip out in the cours...

Lord Sutherland of Houndwood | 684 c733-4 (Link to this contribution) I also support the intention behind these amendments. I shall not attempt to repeat the eloquence of...

Lord Adonis | 684 c734-7 (Link to this contribution) Clause 4 imposes an important new duty on local authorities to identify children missing from educat...

Lord Dearing | 684 c733 (Link to this contribution) Briefly, these amendments are among the most important on the Bill. I agree with the noble Baroness,...

Baroness Warnock | 684 c733 (Link to this contribution) I endorse everything that my noble friend has just said. I support these amendments; they are some o...

Lord Adonis | 684 c723 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that the House do now again resolve itself into Committee on this Bill. Mov...

Baroness Crawley | 684 c769 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House be now resumed. In moving this Motion, I suggest that Committee begin a...

Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 684 c765-6 (Link to this contribution) As I say, to some extent we were teasing. As I have read out, the Bill suggests that the local educa...

Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 684 c769 (Link to this contribution) Some local authorities might like to be deprived of that guidance but, nevertheless, I thank the Min...

Lord Adonis | 684 c767-8 (Link to this contribution) It may assist the Committee if I come in immediately after the noble Baroness to say that we agree w...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 684 c766-7 (Link to this contribution) Amendment No. 49 stands in my name and that of my noble friends. It concerns team games. I will make...

Lord Adonis | 684 c768 (Link to this contribution) I assure the noble Baroness that we are paying very close attention to swimming. The fact that advic...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 684 c768 (Link to this contribution) First, I understand that swimming is to be dropped from the curriculum—that is, apparently, the advi...

Lord Adonis | 684 c769 (Link to this contribution) It means things such as outdoor adventure centres, which may not be in the area but are provided for...

Lord Lucas | 684 c768-9 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with what the noble Baroness, Lady Williams, said. I trumpet the duty at the botto...

Lord Adonis | 684 c769 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness said that she was teasing me. I thought that she had accepted that I had responde...

Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 684 c769 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister respond to my other amendments?

Baroness Crawley | 684 c751 (Link to this contribution) In the case of academies, the Secretary of State would appoint the SIP. However, the SIP would go th...

Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 684 c749 (Link to this contribution) Fifty-one local education authorities have already appointed SIPs. That implies that there are a lim...

Lord Lucas | 684 c747-8 (Link to this contribution) I hope that it will draw back into schools all those head teachers who have retired at 60. I know th...

Lord Lucas | 684 c737 (Link to this contribution) That has certainly not been the case in the past. Local education authorities have used that section...

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Children

Care homes

Accountability

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Costs

Custody

Leisure

Education

Governing bodies

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Migrants

Headteachers

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Mental illness

Pupil exclusions

Standards

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Special educational needs

Training

Young offenders

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Education and Inspections Bill 2005-06

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