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House of Commons

 
 

Thursday 17 March 2011

 

Public Bill Committee

 

New Amendments handed in are marked thus Parliamentary Star

 

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Education Bill


 

Note

 

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

 

Committee [1 March].

 


 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

40

 

Clause  5,  page  10,  line  11,  after ‘Wales’ insert ‘or a pupil at a school in England

 

who has responsibility for caring for family members’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

41

 

Clause  5,  page  10,  line  11,  after ‘Wales’ insert ‘or pupils in England under the age

 

of 14’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

42

 

Clause  5,  page  10,  line  11,  at end insert—

 

‘(2)    

Where a school in England requires a pupil to be detained outside school hours

 

with no notice, the school must have given full consideration on the implications

 

for the parent or carer of the pupil.’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

43

 

Clause  5,  page  10,  line  11,  at end insert—

 

‘(2)    

Where a school in England requires a pupil to be detained outside school hours,

 

the school must give reasonable notice to the parent or carer of the pupil and


 
 

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before the detention occurs the school must have received from the parent or carer

 

confirmation that the parent or carer is aware of the detention.’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

44

 

Clause  5,  page  10,  line  11,  at end insert—

 

‘(2)    

Where a school in England requires a pupil to be detained outside school hours,

 

the school has a duty to establish the child has a safe and suitable means of getting

 

home after the detention.’.

 


 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

45

 

Clause  6,  page  10,  line  13,  at beginning insert ‘Subject to subsection (2)’.

 

Stella Creasy

 

3

 

Clause  6,  page  10,  line  14,  leave out ‘is repealed’ and insert ‘is extended to include

 

consideration of provision and management of support services for children with special

 

educational needs and to represent local schools in safer school partnerships.’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

46

 

Clause  6,  page  10,  line  14,  at end insert—

 

‘(2)    

Subsection (1) shall not come into force before 1 September 2013, and only after

 

Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills has

 

reported that voluntary partnerships for behaviour and attendance partnerships

 

are working in all local authorities.’.

 

Mr Graham Stuart

 

69

 

Clause  6,  page  10,  line  14,  at end insert—

 

‘(2)    

The Secretary of State must commission a report within 24 months to evaluate the

 

impact of eliminating the duty to provide Behaviour and Attendance

 

Partnerships.’.

 


 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

47

 

Clause  7,  page  10,  line  19,  at beginning insert ‘Subject to subsection (6),’.


 
 

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Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

48

 

Clause  7,  page  10,  line  28,  at end insert—

 

‘(6)    

Before the Secretary of State exercises the power to commence this section under

 

section 78, he must lay before Parliament a report which sets out arrangements—

 

(a)    

to maintain the standards of teacher professionalism and competence

 

through a Code of Conduct and Practice for Registered Teachers;

 

(b)    

to reduce variability in assessing teacher performance;

 

(c)    

to maintain, or cause to be maintained, a register of all persons who have

 

been granted qualified teacher status; and

 

(d)    

to end any functions of the GTCE which will not be continued.’.

 


 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

49

 

Clause  8,  page  10,  line  30,  at beginning insert ‘Subject to subsection (3),’.

 

Mr Graham Stuart

 

70

 

Clause  8,  page  11,  line  17,  at end insert—

 

‘(c)    

has displayed sustained professional incompetence.’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

52

 

Clause  8,  page  11,  line  20,  at end insert ‘, or a reprimand, conditional registration,

 

or suspension, which have the same meanings as in schedule 2 to THEA 1998.’.

 

Mr Graham Stuart

 

73

 

Clause  8,  page  11,  line  40,  at end insert—

 

‘(c)    

the names of persons disqualified from membership of the Institute for

 

Learning due to their professional conduct.’.

 

Stella Creasy

 

Meg Munn

 

79

 

Clause  8,  page  12,  line  10,  at end insert ‘This will include information held on such

 

persons by the Independent Safeguarding Authority.’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

83

 

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Clause  8,  page  12,  line  10,  at end insert—

 

‘(5A)    

The Secretary of State will consult with teacher and head teacher unions and

 

employers associations and other persons he sees fit on the appropriate

 

information to be included in the list and on appropriate mechanisms for

 

challenging the accuracy or relevance of information on the list.’.


 
 

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Mr Graham Stuart

 

71

 

Clause  8,  page  12,  line  19,  at end insert ‘or sustained professional incompetence’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

53

 

Clause  8,  page  12,  line  23,  leave out ‘consider whether it would be appropriate to’.

 

Stella Creasy

 

Meg Munn

 

81

 

Clause  8,  page  12,  line  25,  at end insert ‘and to the Independent Safeguarding

 

Authority’.

 

Mr Graham Stuart

 

72

 

Clause  8,  page  12,  line  46,  at end insert ‘or sustained professional incompetence’.

 

Stella Creasy

 

Meg Munn

 

80

 

Clause  8,  page  13,  line  7,  leave out ‘consider whether it would be appropriate to’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

51

 

Clause  8,  page  13,  line  10,  at end insert—

 

‘141F  (1)  

The Secretary of State shall have a duty to raise the professionalism of        

 

teachers in consultation with the following groups—

 

(a)    

teachers;

 

(b)    

employers of teachers;

 

(c)    

providers of teacher training;

 

(d)    

persons concerned with the teaching of persons with special

 

educational needs;

 

(e)    

religious bodies involved in the provision of education;

 

(f)    

parents of pupils;

 

(g)    

commerce and industry; and

 

(h)    

the general public.

 

      (2)  

The Secretary of State shall lay an annual report to Parliament on measures he

 

has taken to raise the professionalism of teachers.’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

84

 

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Clause  8,  page  13,  line  27,  at end insert—

 

‘(3A)    

The Secretary of State will first consult with teacher and head teacher unions and

 

employers associations and other persons he sees fit with the overriding objective

 

to ensure that procedures are just and proportionate.’.


 
 

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Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

50

 

Clause  8,  page  14,  line  40,  at end insert—

 

‘(3)    

Before the Secretary of State exercises the power to commence this section under

 

section 78, he must lay before Parliament a report which sets out arrangements

 

which demonstrate he has put in place sufficient resource and expertise to carry

 

out the teacher misconduct functions.’.

 


 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

56

 

Clause  9,  page  15,  line  16,  after ‘school’, insert ‘including an Academy’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

54

 

Clause  9,  page  16,  line  24,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

On the first, and subsequent, use of the power to set standards against which a

 

person is to be judged as having completed an induction period, the Secretary of

 

State must lay the draft standards, or a draft revision of the standards, before

 

Parliament and the standards will not come into effect until an affirmative

 

resolution on whether the standards are implemented has been achieved in each

 

House of Parliament.’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

55

 

Clause  9,  page  16,  leave out lines 35 to 40 and insert—

 

‘“the appropriate body” shall be the local authority for the area in which the

 

school is situated;’.

 


 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

57

 

Clause  10,  page  19,  line  9,  leave out ‘section 141B of EA 2002’ and insert

 

‘schedule 2 to the THEA 1998’.

 


 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

58

 

Schedule  2,  page  63,  line  31,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The Secretary of State shall consult associations of teachers, higher education

 

institutions providing courses which may form part of the award of qualified


 
 

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teacher status, and associations of local authorities before making regulations

 

under this section which make provision by reference to—

 

(a)    

the content of a course or programme, or

 

(b)    

the standard of education or training provided through a course or

 

programme.’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

59

 

Schedule  2,  page  63,  leave out lines 32 to 38.

 


 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

60

 

Schedule  3,  page  65,  line  42,  after ‘State’, insert ‘or a charity’.

 


 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

89

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  19,  line  35,  after ‘teacher’, insert ‘or other member of staff’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

85

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  19,  line  35,  after ‘school’, insert ‘or at a sixth form college or at a

 

college of further education’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

86

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  19,  line  40,  at end insert ‘or made by or on behalf of a former

 

registered pupil at the school’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

90

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  20,  line  2,  leave out ‘as the teacher’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

61

 

Clause  13,  page  20,  line  27,  at end insert—

 

‘(10A)    

The Secretary of State may by order amend this section to include all staff, or a

 

description of staff, working in schools and institutions of further education.’.


 
 

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Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

87

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  20,  line  33,  leave out ‘in whatever form’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

88

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  20,  line  34,  leave out ‘or any section of the public’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

91

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  20,  line  39,  after ‘teacher’, insert ‘or other member of staff’.

 

Mr Nick Gibb

 

82

 

Clause  13,  page  21,  line  24,  at end insert—

 

    ‘(9)  

Schedule 11B contains supplementary provision relating to an offence under

 

this section.’.

 


 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

62

 

Clause  14,  page  22,  line  3,  at beginning insert ‘Subject to subsection (2),’.

 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

63

 

Clause  14,  page  22,  line  4,  at end insert—

 

‘(2)    

Before the Secretary of State exercises the power to commence this section under

 

section 78, he must lay before Parliament a report which sets out arrangements to

 

maintain the standards of entry to initial teacher education, and the promotion of

 

teaching as a career.’.

 

Mr Graham Stuart

 

99

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  14,  page  22,  line  4,  at end add—

 

‘(2)    

The Secretary of State shall ensure that all teacher training data collected by the

 

TDA prior to its abolition is safeguarded and maintained.’.

 


 

Kevin Brennan

 

Mr Iain Wright

 

92

 

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Clause  15,  page  22,  line  13,  at end insert ‘and shall ensure that in distributing

 

funding to such persons there is fairness between persons employed in the maintained and

 

Academy sectors’.


 
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