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HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]12 Jul 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for her response. It is refreshing to have a Minister who listens and who is open-minded about issues and tries to resolve them. I had intended to push…12 Jul 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]12 Jul 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for reminding me that I should declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I have three amendments in…12 Jul 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I ought to declare an interest as a former head teacher of a Church of England school. We live in a multicultural, multifaith community, and we make that successful by…12 Jul 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, briefly, I do not know whether the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, taught in a primary school, but social engineering is not a phrase I would associate with them; I would…12 Jul 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I wish to test the opinion of the House.12 Jul 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall move Amendment 10 in my name and speak to my Amendment 43 in this group. I preface my remarks by commenting on the important points that the noble Lord, Lord…12 Jul 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy Lords, this debate started with the noble Earl, Lord Howe, talking to us about the importance of free speech at our universities; he used the word “discourse”. He told us…28 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, we support all three amendments in this group. I declare my interest as vice-president of the Local Government Association. I start by telling the Committee that every…27 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]These amendments are hugely important. There is a rhyme, is there not? “Sticks and stones may hurt my bones, but words can never harm me.” But how wrong that is. Words are very…27 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]That is a very fair answer but between Committee and Report, will the Minister just make sure that Ofsted is completely content and there are no further loopholes?22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare an interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I echo the two phrases that the noble Lord, Lord Soley, used: we want to protect the…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I was not going to speak on this group, but I am now. My noble friend Lady Brinton is right: the tone is really important; we underlined that in previous debates. I am very…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord for that and would, at some point, like to talk to him about Finland. One of the other things we forget is that, just as a teacher in the classroom—I still…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]The noble Baroness, Lady Jones, sort of said “all home educators” and I briefly want to say that that is not the case. Some home educators feel threatened by a number of people in…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]The noble Baroness said “home educators”. The noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, corrected by saying “some home educators”, but the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, said “home educators”.…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]Let us agree to differ until we see Hansard .22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]If I am wrong, I am wrong and will apologise, but I make the point quite strongly that a large number of home educators are getting on with home educating. Within the home…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]For the first time, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, in many of the things that she said. This is a first. One thing I want to add is that the Covid lockdown certainly…22 Jun 2022