Children, Schools and Families Bill

Part of the debate – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:17 pm on 19 January 2010.

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Graham Badman: I think that on two sides of A4, for a young child, you could set out what you expect of them in linguistic terms, which is particularly important, and maybe in terms of mathematics. When the child is much older, as a teenager, would it not be remiss of any parent, for example, not to ensure that they have access to information enabling them to judge environmental issues such as climate change? There should be something within the structure of an education allowing a parent  to say, “These are the things that are important to us, which is why we are home educators, and these are the things that we therefore want for our child.”