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An overview of school attendance rules in England, and concerns about increased persistent and severe absence since the Covid pandemic
An overview of school attendance rules in England, and concerns about increased persistent and severe absence since the Covid pandemic
Schools are currently required to actively promote British values. These values were taken from the 2011 Prevent strategy. The Education (Values of British Citizenship) Bill [HL] would require any statement relating to British values for education purposes, made by public authorities in England and Wales, to include certain values, some of which are different from those currently set out.
Schools are currently required to actively promote British values. These values were taken from the 2011 Prevent strategy. The Education (Values of British Citizenship) Bill [HL] would require any statement relating to British values for education purposes, made by public authorities in England and Wales, to include certain values, some...
An overview of the Children Not in School (Registers, Support and Orders) Bill currently before parliament, and previous proposals to enact similar reforms
An overview of the Children Not in School (Registers, Support and Orders) Bill currently before parliament, and previous proposals to enact similar reforms
This private member’s bill would seek to prohibit state-funded schools from admitting students wholly or partially based on criteria relating to ability or aptitude.
This private member’s bill would seek to prohibit state-funded schools from admitting students wholly or partially based on criteria relating to ability or aptitude.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to proceed with the policies in Part 3 (school attendance) and Part 4 (independent educational institutions) of the Schools Bill.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to proceed with the policies in Part 3 (school attendance) and Part 4 (independent educational institutions) of the Schools Bill.
The department’s position on the Schools Bill will be confirmed in due course. The policies support the department’s objective of ensuring that all children receive a safe and suitable education, and the department remains fully committed to taking forward these measures, including through legislation where this is necessary.
Part 3 of the Schools Bill would place a duty on local authorities in England to establish and maintain Children Not in School registers, to provide support to home educators when requested, and update the process for School Attendance Orders to improve efficacy. Part 3 also includes measures on school attendance, which would place the Department’s recently published school attendance guidance ‘Working together to improve school attendance’ on a statutory footing, introduce a national framework for the issuing of fixed penalty notices pertaining to attendance, and bring consistency in how all state funded schools grant leaves of absence in extenuating circumstances.
Part 4 of the Schools Bill seeks to improve safeguarding for children who do not attend state funded schools. It would extend the school registration requirement so that all settings serving children of compulsory school age full time are required to provide a safe and suitably broad education. It strengthens the powers allowing Ofsted and the Department to investigate and take action against illegal unregistered schools. It would also improve the regulation of registered independent schools by ensuring that school registrations correctly reflect each schools safe capacity, age range and other characteristics, and includes measures to improve enforcement powers to better address the needs of children at failing and unsafe schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has had recent discussions with the National Union of Teachers on proposals in the Schools Bill and their potential effect on the membership of that union.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has had recent discussions with the National Union of Teachers on proposals in the Schools Bill and their potential effect on the membership of that union.
The aims of the measures in the Schools Bill are to deliver a stronger and fairer school system that works for every child and to deliver essential safeguarding measures to ensure that more children receive a suitable and safe education. We have had extensive engagement on the provisions in the Schools Bill with many representative bodies and unions, including the National Education Union (NEU). NEU was formed from the amalgamation of the National Union of Teachers and Association of Teachers and Lecturers in 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Education Bill on church schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Education Bill on church schools.
The Government has engaged regularly with the Church of England, the Catholic Church, and other faith groups regarding the Schools Bill.
The Bill includes academy specific legislation to ensure that academies with a religious character have, as far as possible, equivalent statutory protections as those that currently apply to maintained schools.
The published Schools Bill: impact assessment can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-bill-impact-assessment.
This provides an assessment of the policy and equalities impacts of the measures in the Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment the Government has made of the impact of the current Education Bill on local communities’ democratic input to the (a) governance and (b) curriculum of their local state schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment the Government has made of the impact of the current Education Bill on local communities’ democratic input to the (a) governance and (b) curriculum of their local state schools.
The Government has undertaken detailed assessments of the policies within the Schools Bill, which can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1074679/Schools_Bill_impact_assessment.pdf.
The Department knows that a high proportion of academy trusts already have some form of local governance arrangement. As set out in the recent Schools White Paper, the Department is continuing to discuss options with the sector to ensure all trusts benefit from local input.
Academies and free schools have greater freedom in how they operate for areas such as the curriculum, but they are expected to teach a curriculum that is comparable in breadth and ambition to the national curriculum. Therefore, it is up to schools themselves to arrange opportunities for parents and the local community to input into the school curriculum.
The Department expects all schools to be transparent about their curriculum. All schools are required to publish information in relation to the content of their curriculum on their websites annually, including how parents can obtain further information about that curriculum. The Department also plans to write to schools to clarify what the law permits regarding sharing curriculum materials with parents.
The Academies Regulation and Commissioning Review is ongoing and is looking at the overall regulatory and accountability framework for multi-academy trusts in a fully trust-led system, including transparency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Schools Bill will give local authorities the ability to determine whether a home-educated child is receiving an adequate education; and whether training will be provided to local authority employees on making these determinations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Schools Bill will give local authorities the ability to determine whether a home-educated child is receiving an adequate education; and whether training will be provided to local authority employees on making these determinations.
Local authorities already have the ability to determine whether a home educated child is receiving a suitable education. The measures in the Schools Bill do not provide local authorities with additional powers to monitor or assess education.
The Government is committed to establishing a local authority registration system for children not in school, as well as a duty for local authorities to provide support to home-educating families. Current guidance already provides local authorities with a framework to determine whether the provision was suitable. Local authorities should have the in-house expertise to make these decisions, but if they do not then they can, and should, consider undertaking additional training.
As part of the Children Not in School proposals, the Department also intends to create new statutory guidance for local authorities on how they should be implementing their duties in relation to the registers, and will also review and update existing guidance as part of this. This guidance, in addition to the measures themselves, will help toward ensuring a more consistent approach across local authorities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the proposed routes of appeal are against the School Attendance Orders available for parents under the Schools Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the proposed routes of appeal are against the School Attendance Orders available for parents under the Schools Bill.
The Schools Bill has not proposed any changes to the route of appeal available to parents against School Attendance Orders.
Once parents have applied for revocation to the local authority, on the basis that their child will receive suitable education out of school and had that application refused, parents can appeal to the Secretary of State to overrule a local authority’s refusal to revoke a School Attendance Order.
There are other routes of complaint available for parents, which includes: the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman when a parent believes a local authority has not acted as per law and guidance; and the Education Act 1996 gives the Secretary of State powers to intervene when a local authority exercises their functions unreasonably or fails to comply with duties under that Act.
Schools Bill
The petition of residents of the constituency of Henley,
Declares that the petitioners reject the imposition of an expensive, disproportionate, invasive and ill-judged registration and monitoring system for home educated children, which undermines the long-standing statutory recognition of the primacy of parents in determining the education of their children.
The petitioners...
Schools Bill
The petition of residents of the constituency of Henley,
Declares that the petitioners reject the imposition of an expensive, disproportionate, invasive and ill-judged registration and monitoring system for home educated children, which undermines the long-standing statutory recognition of the primacy of parents in determining the education of their children.
The petitioners...
I. Letter dated 13/05/2022 from Baroness Barran to Lord Adonis regarding further details about the Schools Bill announced in the Queen's Speech. 2p. II. Letter dated 01/08/2022 from Baroness Barran to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding the letter for deposit in the House Libraries. 1p.
I. Letter dated 13/05/2022 from Baroness Barran to Lord Adonis regarding further details about the Schools Bill announced in the Queen's Speech. 2p. II. Letter dated 01/08/2022 from Baroness Barran to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding the letter for deposit in the House Libraries. 1p.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to provisions in the Schools Bill, what steps he has taken to ensure that sufficient safeguards are in place around the (a) use and (b) protection of the data collected as part of the proposed requirements to create a register...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to provisions in the Schools Bill, what steps he has taken to ensure that sufficient safeguards are in place around the (a) use and (b) protection of the data collected as part of the proposed requirements to create a register...
Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.
The proposed ‘children not in school’ registers are intended to help with the identification of children being educated otherwise than at school, so that local authorities can undertake their existing responsibilities, to ensure all children are receiving a suitable education.
All local authorities will be required to process personal data they collect and store on their register in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018. This legislation requires each local authority, as a data controller, only to collect and store the minimum personal data necessary and to protect and restrict access to the personal data by implementing appropriate technical and organisational measures.
Policy changes which require personal data processing, such as the ‘children not in school’ registers, are subject to scrutiny by the data protection officer (DPO) and their team, as part of the Data Protection Impact Assessment. The DPO will discuss requirement with the Information Commissioner’s Officer as part of their duties under the ‘prior notification’ obligations in Article 36 of the UK GDPR. This will ensure there are safeguards in place to protect the data on local authority registers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of provisions in the Schools Bill on home education.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of provisions in the Schools Bill on home education.
The department has completed all relevant and required impact assessment for the Schools Bill.
The children not in school measures, which are those most likely to impact home educating families, have been subject to a thorough Equalities Impact Assessment. This considers the impact on families with different protected characteristics. The measures have also been subject to a regulatory impact assessment, which looks at the impact measures will have on businesses and charities. A summary of these impact assessments has been published online as part of the Schools Bill impact assessment document. It is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-bill-impact-assessment.
Schools Bill
The petition of residents of the constituency of Bristol East,
Declares that the petitioners reject the imposition of an expensive, disproportionate, invasive and ill-judged registration and monitoring system for home educated children, which undermines the long-standing statutory recognition of the primacy of parents in determining the education of their children.
The...
Schools Bill
The petition of residents of the constituency of Bristol East,
Declares that the petitioners reject the imposition of an expensive, disproportionate, invasive and ill-judged registration and monitoring system for home educated children, which undermines the long-standing statutory recognition of the primacy of parents in determining the education of their children.
The...
Letter dated 18/07/2022 from Baroness Barran to Peers regarding questions raised in the Schools Bill committee stage debate (first day): Summer engagement on academy trust standards, regulatory review, and criteria for moving a single-academy trust into a multi-academy trust. 3p.
Letter dated 18/07/2022 from Baroness Barran to Peers regarding questions raised in the Schools Bill committee stage debate (first day): Summer engagement on academy trust standards, regulatory review, and criteria for moving a single-academy trust into a multi-academy trust. 3p.
Lords report stage second day. Motion to continue report stage agreed. Amendment 64B was disagreed after division called off. Amendments 68 to 73 agreed to. Amendment 86 agreed to. Amendment 93 agreed to. Amendments 98 and 99 agreed to. (Part 1 of 2).
Lords report stage second day. Motion to continue report stage agreed. Amendment 64B was disagreed after division called off. Amendments 68 to 73 agreed to. Amendment 86 agreed to. Amendment 93 agreed to. Amendments 98 and 99 agreed to. (Part 1 of 2).
Lords report stage second day. Bill, as amended, was ordered to be printed (HL Bill 49). (Part 2 of 2)
Lords report stage second day. Bill, as amended, was ordered to be printed (HL Bill 49). (Part 2 of 2)
Letter dated 18/07/2022 from Baroness Barran to Lord Hunt of Kings Heath regarding the role of the Schools Adjudicator and what types of objections they consider and the Regulatory and Commissioning Review. 3p.
Letter dated 18/07/2022 from Baroness Barran to Lord Hunt of Kings Heath regarding the role of the Schools Adjudicator and what types of objections they consider and the Regulatory and Commissioning Review. 3p.