Clause 43
Education and Skills Bill
2:00 pm
Nick Gibb (Shadow Minister, Children, Schools and Families; Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 152, in clause 43, page 23, line 28, after ‘notice’, insert
‘on the grounds of its suitability or for any other reason’.
The clause sets out the right to appeal against an attendance notice. The hon. Member for Yeovil has raised the matter of advocacy, which we will come on to debate later. The concession that the Minister expressed during the last debate was very welcome. Barnardo’s has expressed strong views on the matter to the Committee, stating in its briefing that further safeguards should be in place in the Bill to ensure that
“advocacy is available, where needed, to enable a young person's voice to be heard at an Attendance Panel at every stage”—