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HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I am very grateful to the Minister for her response. The amendments that my noble friend Lady Morris and I tabled are different, but they come from the same place, if I may put it…27 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]First, I want to say a few words about Amendment 171J in the name of my noble friends Lord Watson of Invergowrie and Lady Blower. It is such an important amendment because it…27 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]27 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I am very pleased to hear what the Minister has just said about defibrillators. I was waiting to hear what noble Lords said on that amendment before responding, and I have to say…27 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]27 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]Our Amendment 171H would require the Government to ask local authorities to work with schools in their area to establish an education partnership organisation. I want to say a…27 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, it is good to be back here; I hope we can finish the last three groups this evening. I am moving our Amendment 156 on “school land and buildings”. We are very worried…27 Jun 2022HANSARDDisabled Children: Support ServicesMy Lords, the Government’s national strategy for disabled people was described by them as a strategy to remove barriers and increase participation, but it was judged to be…23 Jun 2022HANSARDEU Retained LawI am grateful to the Minister for being here to answer questions on this Statement. We wonder about the Government’s priorities in the light of it. After all, yesterday was the…23 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]There is quite deep concern about this issue, and I wonder whether the regulations could be made available to us before Report.22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]The amendment tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, is a characteristically sensible suggestion. I hope that the Government are mindful and assure the House that there is no…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]It has not been dug out of an archive. I expect it to be in our next manifesto, so I expect the noble Lord to have to engage with this on a regular basis.22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I do not want to detain the Committee either, but my ears also pricked up at the question of six months or 12 months. I was part of the Bill Committee when we agreed that…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I do not want to repeat much of the good stuff that has been said, but I shall just mention our Amendment 128, which amends Clause 48 on sharing data between local authorities…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSocial Care: ChildrenMy Lords, the report recommends that schools are made a statutory safeguarding partner in the care system, to represent the voice of education in partnership arrangements. Will…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, we are respectful of the right of parents to educate their children at home, but we cannot agree that this clause should not be part of the Bill. There are clearly…22 Jun 2022HANSARDBritish BaccalaureateLast week, the Minister said at the Dispatch Box that it is not government policy to open further grammar schools, yet we read in the papers that new selective schools are on the…21 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I do not want to rehash everything that has been said. I think that most noble Lords who have spoken support this idea in principle and want to see it work, so I hope the Minister…20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, it is fair enough if the Minister is saying that we have misunderstood. That happens. However, the legislation states clearly that a parent who is registered by a local…20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]It is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Storey. By the time we finish this group, we will have spent more than two hours on it, and that says a lot about the meaty topics…20 Jun 2022