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House of Commons

Tuesday 17 March 2009

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Amendments which will comply with the required notice period at their next appearance

Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

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Note

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the

Committee [3 March 2009]

Mr David Laws

Stephen Williams

Annette Brooke

250

Clause  40,  page  23,  leave out lines 21 to 26 and insert—

‘(1)	A local education authority in England must secure the provision of proper

facilities for education and training (as defined by subsection 2) suitable to the

requirements of persons in their area—

(a)	who are above compulsory school age and under 19, and

(b)	who are aged over 19 or over but under 25 and subject to learning

difficulty assessment.

(2)	Facilities are proper if they are—

(a)	of a quality sufficient to meet the reasonable needs of individuals, and

(b)	of a quality adequate to meet those needs.’.

Mr David Laws

Stephen Williams

Annette Brooke

251

Clause  40,  page  23,  line  22,  leave out ‘reasonable’.

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Mr David Laws

Stephen Williams

Annette Brooke

252

Clause  40,  page  23,  line  31,  leave out ‘to meet persons’ reasonable needs’ and

insert ‘to the requirements of persons in their area.’.

Mr David Laws

Stephen Williams

Annette Brooke

253

Clause  40,  page  23,  line  31,  leave out ‘reasonable’.

Mr David Laws

Stephen Williams

Annette Brooke

4

Clause  40,  page  23,  line  37,  at end insert—

‘(e)	barriers to their participation, including caring for a child or a sick family

member, being homeless, experiencing mental health problems or being

a young offender.’.

Mr David Laws

Stephen Williams

Annette Brooke

257

Clause  40,  page  23,  line  37,  at end insert—

‘( )	the opportunities for inclusion for learners, taking account of their needs and

wishes.’.

Mrs Sharon Hodgson

285

Clause  40,  page  24,  line  8,  leave out from ‘resources’ to end of line 10.

Mr Nick Gibb

Mr John Hayes

Mrs Maria Miller

Bill Wiggin

260

Clause  40,  page  24,  line  10,  at end insert— 

‘(f)	ensure that all sixth form provision offers, as a minimum, A level courses

in English, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history, geography

and at least two modern foreign languages.’.

Mr Nick Gibb

Mr John Hayes

Mrs Maria Miller

Bill Wiggin

261

Clause  40,  page  24,  line  10,  at end insert—

‘(4A)

In performing the duty imposed by subsection (4)(a) a local authority is required

to fund sixth form provision of—

(a)	an existing academy without a sixth form which intends to establish a

sixth form; or

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(b)	a new academy with a sixth form.’.

Mrs Sharon Hodgson

286

Clause  40,  page  24,  line  11,  leave out subsection (5).

Mr Nick Gibb

Mr John Hayes

Mrs Maria Miller

Bill Wiggin

213

Clause  40,  page  24,  line  16,  leave out from ‘(1)’ to end of line 19 and insert ‘defer

to the Chief Executive of Skills Funding.’.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

264

Clause  40,  page  24,  leave out lines 31 to 37.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment is consequent on amendment 282.

Mr Nick Gibb

Mr John Hayes

Mrs Maria Miller

Bill Wiggin

Mr David Laws

Stephen Williams

Annette Brooke

Mrs Sharon Hodgson

231

Clause  40,  page  24,  line  37,  at end insert—

‘(9A)

Every local education authority shall record the number of learners with learning

difficulties in its area for whom suitable education has not been provided and

report this information annually to the Secretary of State, who may require any

local education authority to provide information on the measures it is taking, if

any, to ensure that the number of learners in this situation reduces over time.’.

Mr David Laws

Stephen Williams

Annette Brooke

Mr Nick Gibb

Mr John Hayes

Mrs Maria Miller

112

Clause  40,  page  24,  line  44,  leave out subsection (b).

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

265

Clause  40,  page  25,  leave out lines 1 to 3.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment is consequent on amendment 282.

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Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

266

Clause  40,  page  25,  line  12,  leave out from ‘order’ to end of line 13.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment is consequent on amendment 271.

Mr David Laws

Stephen Williams

Annette Brooke

118

Clause  40,  page  25,  line  15,  after ‘other’, insert ‘, further education colleges, sixth

form colleges, schools with sixth forms and academies with sixth forms,’.

Mr David Laws

Stephen Williams

Annette Brooke

119

Clause  40,  page  25,  line  16,  at end add—

‘( )	The Secretary of State must specifiy areas into which England is to be divided for

the purposes of section 15ZA, and must publish any specification or revised

specification under this section.’.

Mr Nick Gibb

Mr John Hayes

Mrs Maria Miller

Bill Wiggin

215

Clause  41,  page  25,  line  30,  leave out subsections (a) and (b) and insert ‘a contract

of employment other than an apprenticeship agreement with which training is provided.’.

Mr Nick Gibb

Mr John Hayes

Mrs Maria Miller

Bill Wiggin

216

Clause  43,  page  26,  line  18,  leave out ‘A local education authority’ and insert ‘The

Young People’s Learning Agency’.

Mr Nick Gibb

Mr John Hayes

Mrs Maria Miller

Bill Wiggin

217

Clause  43,  page  26,  line  24,  leave out subsection (3).

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Mr Nick Gibb

Mr John Hayes

Mrs Maria Miller

Bill Wiggin

218

Clause  43,  page  26,  line  32,  leave out ‘a local education authority in England’ and

insert ‘the Young People’s Learning Agency’.

Mr Nick Gibb

Mrs Maria Miller

Mr John Hayes

Bill Wiggin

137

Page  26,  line  10,  leave out Clause 43.

Mr David Laws

Stephen Williams

Annette Brooke

254

Clause  44,  page  27,  line  14,  leave out ‘that an authority decide’.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

267

Clause  44,  page  27,  line  38,  at end insert—

‘( )	The references in subsections (1) and (2) to persons in a local education

authority’s area who are over compulsory school age but under 19 do not include

persons who are subject to a detention order.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment makes it clear that new section 17A does not apply to persons subject to a

detention order. A local education authority’s duties towards these persons are set out in clause

47.

Mr David Laws

Stephen Williams

Annette Brooke

255

Clause  44,  page  27,  line  38,  at end insert—

‘(9)	Provision is not be considered as giving rise to disproportionate expenditure only

because that provision is more expensive than comparable provision.’.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

268

Clause  45,  page  29,  leave out lines 6 to 8.

Member’s explanatory statement

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This amendment is consequent on amendment 282.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

269

Clause  46,  page  29,  leave out lines 25 to 27.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment is consequent on amendment 282.

Mr Nick Gibb

Mrs Maria Miller

Mr John Hayes

Bill Wiggin

127

Clause  47,  page  29,  line  32,  leave out ‘A local education authority’ and insert ‘The

Young People’s Learning Agency’.

Mr Nick Gibb

Mr John Hayes

Mrs Maria Miller

Bill Wiggin

378

Clause  47,  page  29,  line  32,  leave out ‘education’.

Mr Nick Gibb

Mr John Hayes

Mrs Maria Miller

Bill Wiggin

99

Clause  47,  page  29,  line  38,  at end insert—

‘(1A)

In deciding for the purposes of subsection (1) whether education or training is

enough to meet persons’ reasonable needs, a minimum of 30 hours per week of

education and skills training must be provided.’.

Mr Nick Gibb

Mrs Maria Miller

Mr John Hayes

Bill Wiggin

128

Clause  47,  page  30,  line  2,  leave out ‘a local education authority’ and insert ‘the

Young People’s Learning Agency’.

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Mr Nick Gibb

Mr John Hayes

Mrs Maria Miller

Bill Wiggin

212

Clause  47,  page  30,  line  5,  after ‘learning’, insert ‘or language’.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

340

Clause  47,  page  30,  line  6,  at end insert—

‘(c)	the desirability of enabling persons to complete programmes of

study or training which they have begun;

(d)	any relevant curriculum and the desirability that education

received by children subject to youth detention should be

comparable with education which they could be expected to

receive if they were attending a school or institution

implementing a relevant curriculum;

(e)	the desirability of the core entitlement and the additional

entitlement being satisfied in relation to persons over

compulsory school age but under 19 who have elected for them.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment requires local education authorities, when securing provision of education and

training in custody under new section 18A(1) of the Education Act 1996, to have regard to the

desirability of continuing with any courses started, to core and additional entitlements being

satisfied and to the relevant national curriculum.

Jim Knight

Mr Siôn Simon

341

Clause  47,  page  30,  line  6,  at end insert—

‘( )	In subsection (2)(d), “relevant curriculum” means—

(a)	in relation to a local education authority in England, the National

Curriculum for England established under section 87 of the

Education Act 2002 as subsisting for the time being;

(b)	in relation to a local education authority in Wales—

(i)	the National Curriculum for Wales established under

section 108 of that Act as subsisting for the time being,

or

(ii)	any local curriculum formed by the authority under

section 116A of the Education Act 2002 (formation of

local curricula for pupils in Key Stage 4) or for their area

under section 33A of the Learning and Skills Act 2000

(formation of local curricula for students aged 16 to 18).

( )	Sections 17B to 17D apply for the purposes of subsection (2)(e) as they

apply for the purposes of section 17A.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment is related to amendment 340. It defines “relevant curriculum” for the purposes

of section 18A(2)(d) of the Education Act 1996 and provides for “core entitlement” and

“additional entitlement” in section 18A(2)(e) to be read in accordance with sections 17B-17D

(inserted by clause 44).

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Revised 17 March 2009