Clause 44 - Categories of schools causing concern
Education Bill [Lords]
10:45 am
Mr Don Touhig (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Wales), Department for Constitutional Affairs; Islwyn, Labour/Co-operative)
I will come back to that in a moment, if I may. I would like to continue with some of the matters that I originally intended to cover.
On amendment No. 21, the Bill provides that a school requires special measures if two criteria are satisfied: first, if
“the school is failing to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education”,
and, secondly, if the school’s leadership is
“not demonstrating the capacity to secure the necessary improvement”.
The amendment would delete the second part of the definition and remove the requirement to take into account the school’s capacity to improve. We have introduced that new requirement, which is an important change to the current definition of special measures, to ensure that inspectors who are making special measures judgments give specific attention to a school’s capacity to improve.