Clause 5 - School improvement partners
Education and Inspections Bill
3:45 pm
Anne Snelgrove (PPS (Lord Warner, Minister of State), Department of Health; South Swindon, Labour)
We probably all know of schools that have performed excellently but then dropped for some reason and become coasting or even poorly performing schools. An SIP for each school would help us to anticipate that happening to a school and therefore work with it to prevent it from falling into special measures.
There is an issue about scarce resources, but on principle I back the clause as drafted, saying that we should have a SIP for every school. A SIP could perhaps take on more than one school and therefore make best use of scarce resources.
Further consideration adjourned.—[Mr. Cawsey.]
Adjourned accordingly at one minute to Four o’clock till Tuesday 18 April at half-past Ten o’clock.