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| Education and Inspections Bill
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| | Amendment (No. 24) proposed, in page 6, line 34, at the end, to insert the words— |
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| | ‘(1A) | A local authority shall publish a notice under subsection (1) in circumstances |
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| | where 35 per cent or more of school places are in schools that are |
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| | underperforming.’. — (Mr Nick Gibb). |
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| | Question proposed, That the Amendment be made. |
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| | Negatived on division 179 |
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| Clause 7, page 6, line 34, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(1A) | A local education authority must publish such a notice if they receive |
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| | representations from 50 or more parents of qualifying children in connection with |
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| | the establishment of a foundation, voluntary or foundation special school or an |
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| | (1B) | In subsection (1A) “qualifying child”, in relation to a local education authority, |
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| | means any child in the authority’s area who is of or under compulsory school |
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| Clause 7, page 6, line 34, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(1B) | In subsection (1A) a maintained school is “underperforming” if, in the previous |
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| | academic year, it was in the fourth quartile nationally of the value added measure |
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| Clause 7, page 7, line 1, after second ‘a’, insert ‘reasonable’. |
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| Clause 7, page 7, line 2, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(ca) | specify appropriate qualifications for persons other than local education |
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| | authorities wishing to establish the new school,’. |
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| Clause 7, page 7, line 15, leave out from second ‘school’ to end of line 18. |
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| Clause 7, page 7, line 16, leave out ‘with the consent of the Secretary of State,’. |
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| Clause 7, page 7, line 18, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(5A) | The Secretary of State shall only consent to the publication of proposal under |
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| | subsection (5)(b)(ii) for the establishment of a community or community special |
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| | school if the local authority can demonstrate to the Secretary of State that the |
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| | establishment of such a school would lead to substantially better academic results |
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| | than would be the case for a foundation or foundation special school.’. |
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| Clause 7, page 7, line 18, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(5A) | The Secretary of State may not refuse consent under subsection 5(b)(ii) in any |
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| | case in which the request by the authority for such consent is shown to be |
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| | supported by parents in such numbers and in such categories as may be prescribed |
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| Clause 7, page 7, line 20, at end insert ‘, such time not to be less than a period of |
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| Clause 7, page 7, line 22, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(6A) | The Secretary of State may by order suspend the operation of this section in |
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| | relation to invitations by local education authorities of proposals for the |
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| | establishment of an Academy during such period as may be appropriate for the |
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| | evaluation of the success or otherwise of Academies in achieving high |
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| | Clause Agreed to on division. |
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| Clause 8, page 7, line 27, leave out ‘such persons as appear to the authority to be |
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| appropriate;’ and insert ‘parents within the locality’. |
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| Clause 8, page 7, line 27, after ‘appropriate’, insert ‘and which must include the |
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| headteacher and the chairman of governors of all maintained schools in areas adjacent to |
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| Clause 8, page 7, line 27, after ‘appropriate’, insert ‘and in the case of religious- |
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| based schools, the relevant church or religious authority’. |
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| [Adjourned till Tuesday next at 10.30 a.m. |
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