Clause 5

Part of Education Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:15 am on 17 March 2011.

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Photo of Meg Munn Meg Munn Labour, Sheffield, Heeley 10:15, 17 March 2011

I want to make an entirely different point, because we have moved on and it has been raised by the Minister. I have no reason to doubt the Minister—he has set out the law—but what is the purpose of not having any notice for detention? All such notice would do is add an extra safeguard to enable a teacher who, for whatever reason, was not aware of the special needs—teachers, like everybody else, do not have special powers—to act in the same way as they can under other laws.