9:00 pm
Nick Gibb (Shadow Minister, Children, Schools and Families; Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Conservative)
Welcome to our proceedings. It is very good of you to come in. One theme that runs through the briefings on the Bill from all three unions is that it seems to increase the bureaucratic burdens on schools. John Dunford, in the ASCL’s submission you talk about an unnecessary increase in bureaucracy and work load for school and college leaders and diminished powers for school and college leaders with regard to day-to-day management. Similar concerns are expressed in the brief from the NUT, which has reservations about making children’s trust boards statutory and would oppose any requirement on schools to provide separate reports on pupil behaviour to them. Will each of you comment on your overall concerns about increased bureaucratic burdens on school leaders and teachers?