Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: educational institutions: information and access
Mr Malcolm Wicks
NC11
To move the following Clause:—
'.—(1) Where a person is involved in the provision of services in pursuance of section [Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: provision of services](1)(a) or (b), an educational institution to which this section applies shall, for the purpose of the provision of those services—
(a) provide him on request with the name and address of a pupil or student;
(b) provide him on request with the name and address of a parent of a pupil or student;
(c) provide him on request with information in the institution's possession about a pupil or student;
(d) permit him to have access to a pupil or student on the institution's premises at reasonable times;
(e) make available to him, so far as is reasonably convenient, facilities on the institution's premises for providing services to individual pupils or students or groups of pupils or students.
(2) Information shall not be provided under subsection (1)(c)—
(a) in the case of a pupil or student who has not attained the age of 16, if a parent of his has instructed the institution not to provide information of that kind under this section, or
(b) in the case of a pupil or student who has attained the age of 16, if he has instructed the institution not to provide information of that kind under this section.
(3) This section applies to the following institutions—
(a) community, foundation and voluntary schools,
(b) community or foundation special schools (other than those established in hospitals),
(c) city technology colleges and city colleges for the technology of the arts,
(d) pupil referral units,
(e) institutions within the further education sector, and
(f) institutions in receipt of funding from the National Council for Education and Training for Wales.'.
Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: inspection
Mr Malcolm Wicks
NC12
To move the following Clause:—
'.—(1) Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales—
(a) shall advise the National Assembly for Wales on request about matters relating to services provided in pursuance of section [Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: provision of services](1),
(b) may give the National Assembly other advice about those matters,
(c) shall, when requested to do so by the National Assembly, inspect and report on the provision of those services, and
(d) may undertake such other inspections of the provision of those services as he thinks fit.
(2) The National Assembly shall consult the Chief Inspector before making a request under subsection (1)(a) or (c).
(3) A request under subsection (1)(c)—
(a) may be general or in relation to specific matters,
(b) may relate to a specific person or institution providing services, or to a specific class of person or institution, and
(c) may relate to a specific area.
(4) A reference in subsection (1) to the provision of services includes a reference to the management and use of resources in providing services.'.
Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: conduct and effect of inspections
Mr Malcolm Wicks
NC13
To move the following Clause:—
'.—(1) This section applies where a service is inspected pursuant to a request under section [Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: inspection](1)(c) or in accordance with section [Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: inspection](1)(d).
(2) A person carrying out or participating in the inspection shall have the same powers as an Inspector under the following provisions of the School Inspections Act 1996—
(a) section 6(3)(a) and (b) (right of access), and
(b) section 42 (computer records).
(3) Section 42A of that Act (publication of reports) shall apply.
(4) Where the Chief Inspector arranges for the publication of a report of an inspection, the person who provides the inspected service shall—
(a) prepare a written statement of the action which he proposes to take in the light of the report and the period within which he proposes to take it,
(b) publish the statement within such period, and in such manner, as may be prescribed by regulations made by the National Assembly for Wales, and
(c) send copies of the statement to such persons as may be prescribed by regulations made by the National Assembly.
(5) Where a local authority provides an inspected service, or secures or participates in the provision of an inspected service, the authority—
(a) shall ensure that the action specified in any statement prepared under subsection (4)(a) is sufficient to remedy any weakness mentioned in the report, and
(b) shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the action specified in the statement is taken within the period specified.
(6) If the National Assembly consider that a local authority is failing to comply with its duties under subsection (5)—
(a) the National Assembly may give directions to the local authority about the performance of those duties, and
(b) the authority shall comply with the directions.'.
Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: supplementary
Mr Malcolm Wicks
NC14
To move the following Clause:—
'.—(1) In sections [Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: provision of services] to [Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: conduct and effect of inspections]—
"local authority" means a county council or a county borough council,
"Health Authority" has the meaning given by section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977,
"parent", in relation to a child, means a person who has parental responsibility for him within the meaning of section 3 of the Children Act 1989,
"probation committee" means a committee established under section 3 of the Probation Service Act 1993,
"police authority" has the meaning given by section 101 of the Police Act 1996,
"young person" has the meaning given by section [Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: provision of services](3),
"youth offending team" means a team established under section 39 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, and
"youth support services" has the meaning given by section [Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: provision of services](2).
(2) The power under section [Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: provision of services] shall not relate to services which are provided or to be provided outside Wales.'.
Wales: provision of information by public bodies
Mr Malcolm Wicks
NC15
To move the following Clause:—
'.—(1) For the purpose of the provision in Wales of services mentioned in subsection (2), any of the bodies mentioned in subsection (3) may supply information about a young person—
(a) to a local authority;
(b) to any other person involved in the provision of the services.
(2) The services are—
(a) services provided in pursuance of section [Support for 11 to 25 year olds: Wales: provision of services] of this Act,
(b) services provided in pursuance of any of sections 2, 8, 9 and 10 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 (training and careers services), and
(c) services wholly or partly funded in pursuance of section 12 of the Industrial Development Act 1982 (careers in industry).
(3) The bodies are—
(c) the National Council for Education and Training for Wales,
(d) a probation committee, and
(e) a youth offending team.'.
Qualifying arrangements
Mr Malcolm Wicks
NC16
To move the following Clause:—
' .—(1) Subsection (2) applies if a provision contained in or made under an enactment requires arrangements to qualify under this section (or to qualify under it at a particular time).
(2) The provision is to be taken to require the arrangements to satisfy conditions specified by the Secretary of State in regulations made under this section (or to satisfy them at the time concerned).
(3) These conditions may be included—
(a) conditions as to the description of individual who may enter into arrangements;
(b) conditions as to the description of body with which arrangements may be made;
(c) conditions as to the nature of the arrangements and the way they are to be made;
(d) conditions requiring the arrangements to be identified by a specified name.
(4) Conditions as to the description of body with which arrangements may be made may themselves specify the description or may allow the Secretary of State to specify it in a way he thinks fit.
(5) The regulations may provide that a specification of a description of body with which arrangements may be made may include a requirement for bodies to have the benefit of approvals which have been given by the Secretary of State and not withdrawn.
(6) The regulations may contain provision securing that an individual may not simultaneously—
(a) be a party to more than one set of arrangements which qualify under this section, or
(b) be a party to arrangements which qualify under this section and to arrangements falling within subsection (7).
(7) Arrangements fall within this subsection if they are arrangements which qualify under such provision of the law of Scotland or Northern Ireland as in the opinion of the Secretary of State corresponds to this section.'.
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