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(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;

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

in each area.’.

Access to public examinations

Mr Graham Stuart

NC13

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.’.

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Access to specialist music tuition

Mr Graham Stuart

NC14

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.’.

Access to school facilities

Mr Graham Stuart

NC15

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)	headteachers of schools to which this section applies.’.

Exclusion of children with SEN and disabilities

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

NC16

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;

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(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;

(3)	Regulations may make provision about arrangements to be made by a school for

the purposes of this section.’.

Inquiry into regulation and support for home education

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

NC18

To move the following Clause:—

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

regulation of and support for home educating parents and children.

(2)	The independent inquiry shall consult fully with all interested parties, including

home educating parents, families and children, and shall report by 31 December

2011.

(3)	The independent inquiry shall specifically consider the following issues—

(a)	the case for a light touch system of notification for all home educating

families;

(b)	the nature of the support package which should be made available to

home educating families on notification of home education;

(c)	the appropriate definition for a “suitable” home education;

(d)	the powers which local authorities may need to have available to deal

with any cases where it is believed that a suitable home education is not

being delivered.

(4)	In preparing its report the independent inquiry shall make recommendations only

in relation to educational and not welfare concerns.’.

Review of family proceeding provisions

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

NC19

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	The Lord Chancellor must 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) must not be commenced before

completion of the evaluation of the family courts information pilot or the end of

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

whichever is the later.’.

Provision of healthy school meals

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

NC20

To move the following Clause:—

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

in all maintained schools by 31 December 2010.

(2)	Those plans must 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.’.

Publication of serious case reviews

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

NC21

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	When Local Safeguarding Children Boards commission serious case reviews

these shall be published in full within 60 days of completion, subject only to the

redaction and anonymisation which is necessary to protect the welfare and

reasonable expectation of privacy of those persons mentioned in the Serious Case

Review.

(2)	The Local Safeguarding Children Boards must also ensure that within 12 months

of the publication of the serious case reviews there is in each case an independent

evaluation of the extent to which the conclusions of the review have been acted

upon.’.

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Continuous professional development

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

NC22

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	None of the measures set out in section 23 (licence to practise) shall come into

effect until the Secretary of State has commissioned an independent report into—

(a)	the most effective ways of improving continuous professional

development for teachers, and

(b)	any necessary changes in the system of performance management for

teachers.

(2)	The independent report must be informed by consultation with the General

Teaching Council for England, the Children, Schools and Families Committee of

the House of Commons, representatives of the teaching profession in England,

and other suitable bodies.’.

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

80

Page  1,  line  4,  leave out Clause 1.

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

108

Page  2,  line  34  [Clause  1],  leave out subsection (7).

Secretary Ed Balls

67

Page  2,  line  35  [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.’.

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

81

Page  3,  line  4,  leave out Clause 2.

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Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

82

Page  3,  line  27,  leave out Clause 3.

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

83

Page  5,  line  21,  leave out Clause 4.

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

84

Page  6,  line  34,  leave out Clause 5.

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

85

Page  7,  line  12,  leave out Clause 6.

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

79

Page  7,  line  17  [Clause  6],  leave out ‘shall’ and insert ‘may’.

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

89

Page  7,  line  19  [Clause  6],  at end insert, ‘provided that the local authority judges

that such a survey provides good value for money in helping to deliver school

improvement.’.

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Michael Gove

Mr Nick Gibb

Tim Loughton

Mrs Maria Miller

Mr Graham Stuart

Mr Edward Timpson

Total signatories: 7

1

Page  11,  line  12  [Clause  8],  at end insert—

‘(2A)

The Secretary of State may by order by Statutory Instrument establish a scheme

of mediation for parents appealing against decisions.’.

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’.

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’.

Michael Gove

Mr Nick Gibb

Tim Loughton

Mrs Maria Miller

Mr Graham Stuart

Mr Edward Timpson

Total signatories: 9

Mr David Laws

Annette Brooke

60

Page  12,  line  12,  leave out Clause 10.

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