Clause 5 - School improvement partners
Education and Inspections Bill
3:15 pm
John Hayes (Shadow Minister (Vocational Education), Education; South Holland and The Deepings, Conservative)
I shall deal with the Liberal amendments in turn. I suspect that our views on the matter might be rather similar to the Government’s. The case has not been made for including other kinds of school within the orbit of the Bill. There is a good debate to be had on the role of school improvement partners, and no doubt we will have it later in our consideration. There is a specific debate to be had on who those people will be and precisely what role they will play. However, I am not sure that it is appropriate to extend their remit to
“academies, city technology colleges, city colleges for the technology of the arts, and such other education establishments as may be prescribed”.
That seems to me such an all-embracing category—with those other establishments that may be prescribed, not to mention those that are named—as to make it impractical, and more than that, undesirable. School improvement partners are part of the Bill, and the Bill deals with particular circumstances in particular schools. The amendment would widen it beyond what is reasonable.