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Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Wednesday 10 February 2010

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

 

831-55 and 905

 

Consideration of Bill


 

Children, Schools and Families Bill, As Amended

 

Amendments of provisions about complaints in ASCLA 2009

 

Secretary Ed Balls

 

NC17

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

In Part 10 of ASCLA 2009 (schools), Chapter 2 (complaints: England) is

 

amended as follows.

 

(2)    

In section 207 (power of Local Commissioner to investigate complaint), in

 

subsection (5)(b) (power not to investigate vexatious complaint), before

 

“vexatious” there is inserted “frivolous or”.

 

(3)    

In section 216 (law of defamation)—

 

(a)    

in subsection (1)(a), after “a governing body” there is inserted “or head

 

teacher”;

 

(b)    

in subsection (2)(a), after “the governing body” there is inserted “or head

 

teacher”.’.

 

Secretary Ed Balls

 

67

 

Page  2,  line  34  [Clause  1],  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

No liability in tort can arise on the basis of the inclusion of any matter in the pupil

 

guarantee or the parent guarantee.’.

 

Secretary Ed Balls

 

68

 

Page  11,  line  40  [Clause  9],  leave out from ‘(3AA),’ to end of line 41 and insert

 

‘education on such part-time basis as the authority consider to be in the child’s best

 

interests’.


 
 

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Children, Schools and Families Bill, continued

 
 

Secretary Ed Balls

 

69

 

Page  12,  line  3  [Clause  9],  leave out ‘be impracticable or otherwise inappropriate’

 

and insert ‘not be in the child’s best interests’.

 

Secretary Ed Balls

 

70

 

Page  14,  line  6  [Clause  11],  at end insert—

 

‘(7A)    

Subsections (4) to (7) are not to be read as preventing the governing body or head

 

teacher of a school within subsection (7B) from causing or allowing PSHE to be

 

taught in a way that reflects the school’s religious character.

 

(7B)    

A school is within this subsection if it is designated as a school having a religious

 

character by an order made by the Secretary of State under section 69(3) of the

 

School Standards and Framework Act 1998.’.

 


 
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