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Public Bill Committee Proceedings: 4 February 2010
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Children, Schools and Families Bill, continued

Review of Family Proceedings provisions

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

Not called  NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
The Lord Chancellor will commission an independent review of the operation of

Part 2 of this Act and set out the conclusions of the review in a report to be laid

before Parliament and considered by the Justice Committee of the House of

Commons.

(2)
The review for the purposes of subsection (1) will not be commenced before

completion of the evaluation of the “Family courts information pilot” or the end

of the period of 18 months beginning with the time section 32 comes into force,

whichever is the later.’.

Exclusions of children with SEN and disabilities

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

Not called  NC3

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
The Secretary of State shall make arrangements to reduce the permanent

exclusion rates for pupils with a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 or

a special educational need as defined by the Education Act 1996.

(2)
In carrying out the requirements established under subsection (1), the Secretary

of State may require schools to provide—

(a)
a review of the effectiveness of the special educational needs provision

for any pupil at School Action, School Action Plus or with a statement of

special educational needs made under section 324 of the Education Act

1996 who has been permanently excluded from that school in the 12

month period;

(b)
a review of the effectiveness of the reasonable adjustments made for any

child with a disability who has been permanently excluded from that

school in the 12 month period

(c)
Regulations may make provision about arrangements to be made by a

school for the purposes of this section.’.

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Children, Schools and Families Bill, continued

Provision of healthy school meals

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

Not called  NC4

To move the following Clause:—

‘The Secretary of State shall publish plans in respect of the provision of lunches

in all maintained schools by 31 December 2010. These plans will make provision

for—

(a)
increasing the take up of healthy school meals;

(b)
all children in maintained schools to sit down to eat a healthy lunch in an

appropriate setting on all full school days by 1 January 2012;

(c)
supporting schools and colleges to provide adequate facilities for serving

and consuming school meals;

(d)
all schools to allow sufficient time for the daily consumption of a healthy

lunch.’.

Independent inquiry into support for home-educating parents and children

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

Not called  NC5

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
The Secretary of State shall establish an independent inquiry into providing

additional access to a range of support for home-educating parents and children.

This report shall be completed by 31 December 2010. Provision will be made to

consult with all interested parties.’.

Capacity of schools to implement PSHE

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

Not called  NC6

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
Before requiring maintained schools or Academies to implement PSHE the

Secretary of State shall carry out an impact assessment into the capacities of such

schools to provide PSHE and any such impact assessment shall be reported to

Parliament.’.

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Removal of exemption from sex and relationships education

Mr Ken Purchase

Not called  NC7

To move the following Clause:—

‘Section 405 of the Education Act 1996 shall be omitted.’.

Excluded children

Mr Graham Stuart

Not called  NC8

To move the following Clause:—

‘The authorities, bodies, proprietors and teachers to which this section applies

may not advise a child’s parent to consider home education—

(a)
in order to prevent the permanent exclusion of that child; or

(b)
as a mechanism to deal with behavioural issues relating to that child.’.

Consultative forums

Mr Graham Stuart

Not called  NC9

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
A local authority in England shall establish a consultative forum for the purpose

of securing the views of parents of home-educated children in their area.

(2)
After each meeting of a consultative forum, a local authority in England shall—

(a)
assess its results, and

(b)
publish a summary of them.

(3)
If those views demonstrate material parental satisfaction with the provision of

support by a local authority to home-educated children in their area, the authority

shall prepare and publish a plan (“a response plan”) setting out their proposals

for—

(a)
responding to that dissatisfaction, and

(b)
dealing with any particular issues, about which views were expressed in

the consultative forum, that the authority consider need to be dealt with.

(4)
Regulations may make provision for—

(a)
the establishment of a consultative forum and the procedures to be

followed;

(b)
how often meetings of a consultative forum should take place;

(c)
when and how the views expressed in each meeting of the consultative

forum are to be published;

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Children, Schools and Families Bill, continued

(d)
the relationship between the consultative forum and the Children’s Trust

in each area.’.

Access to public examinations

Mr Graham Stuart

Not called  NC10

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
A local authority in England shall provide—

(a)
free access to examination centres for home-educated children;

(b)
entry to examinations for all publicly-funded qualifications free of

charge to any home-educated child who has sufficiently demonstrated

their preparedness;

(c)
free entry to examinations for all key stage assessments for home-

educated children.

(2)
Regulations may make provision about—

(a)
the criteria to be taken into account in making a determination about a

child’s preparedness for any examination;

(b)
the examinations to which this section applies; and

(c)
the steps to be taken by an authority to ensure access to an examination

centre for a home-educated child.’.

Access to specialist music tuition

Mr Graham Stuart

Not called  NC11

To move the following Clause:—

‘A local authority in England shall, where specialist music provision is available

in the schools in their area to which this section applies, make provision for such

tuition to be made available to home-educated children at the same cost as it is to

children educated at a school or who are under 19.’.

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Access to school facilities

Mr Graham Stuart

Not called  NC12

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
The Secretary of State must issue, and may from time to time revise, guidance

(the “guidance”) on extending free access to—

(a)
school libraries;

(b)
school sports facilities; and

(c)
specialist facilities;

to home-educated children.

(2)
The guidance may impose requirements on—

(a)
local authorities in England;

(b)
governing bodies, and proprietors (other than governing bodies), of

schools to which this section applies, and

(c)
head teachers of schools to which this section applies.’.

Uncontested adoption proceedings

Mr Edward Timpson

Mr Nick Gibb

Tim Loughton

Mr Graham Stuart

Bill Wiggin

Mr Henry Bellingham

Not called  NC13

To move the following Clause:—

‘Part 2 of this Bill shall not apply to uncontested adoption proceedings under the

Adoption and Children Act 2002.’.

Mr Nick Gibb

Tim Loughton

Bill Wiggin

Mr Edward Timpson

Mr Graham Stuart

Not called  74

Title,  line  1,  leave out ‘guarantees’ and insert ‘entitlements’.

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Children, Schools and Families Bill, continued

Mr Vernon Coaker

                                                          Agreed to

  That certain written evidence already reported to the House be appended to the

proceedings of the Committee.

Bill, as amended, to be reported.



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