Education and Adoption Bill

My Lords, this amendment takes us to Clause 7, which is about failing schools, not coasting schoo...

My Lords, I support Amendment 15A and I agree with the sentiments espoused by the noble Baroness,...

My Lords, I would like to respond to Amendment 15A, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Storey, and th...

I thank the Minister for the figures she has just given us but is she saying that there have not ...

There are 778 approved sponsors and about 20% are waiting to be matched with schools. The noble L...

I think the issue about how long schools wait before they find a match with a sponsor is very imp...

We look for a sponsoring match to happen as quickly as possible but one of the issues that this B...

My question is not about that. Perhaps the Minister will write if she is not in a position to ans...

I think it would be best if I wrote to the noble Baroness as I do not have the figures directly t...

What I am concerned about in what I am hearing is that the Minister is suggesting that that does ...

I did not say that they did not, but we are talking here about multi-academy trusts and why for f...

Would the Minister therefore support outstanding local maintained schools becoming a sponsor for ...

They could certainly become an academy and do that, but they would have to have the same legal st...

I was interested in what the Minister said about the sponsorship process. I would be interested t...

I am very happy to write to the noble Earl on that point.

I thank noble Lords who have participated in this debate. Will the Minister clarify one point? I ...

The noble Baroness is right that the key to school improvement is local school-to-school support....

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Addington

16: Clause 7, page 6, line 10, at end insert—

“(4) Afte...

My Lords, this amendment is an attempt to correct something that I see as rather an error in the ...

I am happy to talk about it now.

Perhaps we can talk about Uplands school at length on Report.

If we go down this path, we w...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 17, 21 and 26 to 29 in this group. Amendments 21 and 26 t...

I am thinking of, for example, the need to build a children’s home or to produce more affordable ...

That is an interesting comment by the noble Earl. Flexibility is what I am looking for in this am...

My Lords, I support Amendment 17 onwards. I was sorry to miss such a lot of last Thursday’s consi...

My Lords, I cannot but respond to the kind remarks of my noble friend. They were very generous. I...

I feel that I have to put the case for local councillors and their involvement in local education...

I agree with the noble Baroness’s diagnosis of what makes a good school. That is true. Children, ...

My Lords, I, too, support Amendment 17 and have great sympathy with the intentions behind Amendme...

I shall briefly respond, since I have been challenged on this—and that is good, because I respect...

I shall speak briefly in support of the amendment. My noble friend said more eloquently than I ca...

Before the Minister replies, I want to ask the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, if she might help wi...

I am happy to respond. I am still a school governor and many noble Lords will be aware that the g...

I thank the noble Baroness.

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 16, 17, 21 and 26 to 29, tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Add...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord for giving way and for his comments. This comes back to the ...

I will try and make it clear again. Our approach to failing and inadequate schools, category 4 sc...

Could the Minister just repeat where that is? That is the real essence of my amendment. Could he ...

It is in the new model funding agreement which is on our website and I can send the noble Lord a ...

Thank you.

RSCs have already shown they can act quickly to bring about improvements. Since September 2014 wh...

I cannot resist intervening on that. The whole point is that when we have a failing NHS foundatio...

I note the noble Lord’s intervention. He has not disappointed me; we discussed this morning where...

The important thing about Uplands is that it has lost half its teachers. Half the teachers at the...

I am happy to introduce the noble Lord to the people involved in this because the lack of progres...

Will the Minister elucidate two things for me? First, I understand there is a consultation on wha...

The consultation will close on 18 December and we will announce the findings in the spring. Unlik...

In looking at the document, that is indeed what it says. The Minister, I am sure, would expect th...

We will, of course, take into account the sponsors to the consultation before finalising the regu...

If that is the case, if the Bill did not become law, what would apply with regard to “coasting” i...

The definition is in the regulations, not in the Bill. That is what we are talking about in the c...

My Lords, on the definition of “coasting”, I wonder how much the Treasury Bench wishes it had got...

We published the definition in June.

I know, but that is an administrative thing. We should have something in the Bill. Much of this d...

Moved by

Baroness Sharp of Guildford

18: After Clause 7, insert the following new Cla...

This is a probing amendment and it comes from the Royal College of Speech and Language specialist...

My Lords, I am very pleased indeed that the noble Baroness has tabled this probing amendment. I h...

My Lords, it is always something of a relief when somebody from our Bench beats me to the punch o...

My Lords, as one who can speak but not sing, I shall speak very briefly. I thank the noble Barone...

My Lords, this amendment prompts a question in my mind, which the Minister might be able to write...

I apologise for speaking again here, but perhaps I may add something. I am the special educationa...

I suppose what flows from that is that the educational attainment of other children may not progr...

I remind the noble Lord that schools receive extra resources for those young people—especially no...

Before my noble friend Lord Watson speaks, perhaps I may ask a question. This is an important ame...

My Lords, I am not sure which Minister will respond to this debate—I see it will be the noble Bar...

My Lords, Amendment 18, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Sharp of Guildford, concerns provision...

I am very grateful to noble Lords for participating in this debate. I thought it was going to be ...

Moved by

Baroness Sharp of Guildford

19: Clause 8, page 6, line 16, leave out from “c...

This is me again. I apologise for that. To some extent, we are going over ground on this question...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 20 and 22 as well as to Clause 8 stand part. We are quite h...

My Lords, I did not intend to intervene in this debate, except from my experience of trying to de...

It is like being in Piccadilly Circus in this Room at the moment. I shall speak briefly to this g...

My Lords, the group of amendments including Amendment 19 proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Storey,...

My Lords, I cannot allow that to stand. I requested in the previous debate that we did not throw ...

I fully accept that on both sides of the House we want to put the interests of children first. Ma...

But all this is after the event. He says that sponsors will be keen to engage with parents; yes, ...

As it said in our manifesto, a school will become an academy in these circumstances.

I go b...

My Lords, before the Minister sits down, I make plain that you do not have to be a member of the ...

I am sorry; I was forgetting that I was the one who originally moved this. I thank the Minister f...