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HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourth sitting)I have two specific questions, although there may be no answer to the first—it may be for regulations, and there may be no decision yet. If a large local authority such as…23 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourth sitting)I agree with everything the Minister is saying—it all sounds very sensible. She may be coming to this, but on this point about where MASHs already exist, do these new teams…23 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourth sitting)My right hon. Friend asks a really good question, and I intervene to sharpen that further. He asks whether the new teams are displacing or replacing the MASHs. Does the Government…23 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Third sitting)I have nothing to say about these amendments. I will reserve my comments for our amendment, which is in a different group. I completely understand what the Minister is doing.…23 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourth sitting)I have already talked about our general support for clause 3, as well as some of the issues around the geography, content and cast lists of the teams, which brings me on to…23 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)Q My real question is: what would you amend? We are trying to find out how we should change the Bill as it goes through. Jacky Tiotto: If I speak too long—because this is a great…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you recognise that sometimes a school can bring someone in who might be at a later point in their career and be highly specialised—perhaps a great sportsman, an IT person or…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)Q Is there a major problem with schools employing teachers without qualified teacher status? Are non-QTS teachers not up to scratch? Would you regard it as a red flag if a school…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you for coming. I have some short questions that do not need particularly long answers. Have you found evidence that academy schools are not teaching a broad and balanced…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)Q The hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) has raised some concerns, as has the Confederation of School Trusts, about the end of academy orders and the fact…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)Q What is the average length of time? Jacky Tiotto: I do not know, but I would think it is a number of weeks.21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning and thank you for coming. Clause 1 states: “Before a local authority in England makes an application for an order” it has to “offer a family group decision-making…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)Q You can be a good teacher even if you do not have QTS. You can be the right person. Julie McCulloch: Yes. We absolutely in principle think that there should be qualified teacher…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)Q Do you think it is sometimes better to have a good professional person whom the head thinks is a good teacher, rather than no teacher at all? Julie McCulloch: In some cases,…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)Q So if you had the power, you could get this Bill into exactly the way you would draft it. With lots of experience in this world, you would change it so that we moved this thing…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)Q Do you have a sense that a large number of schools are not providing a broad and balanced education at the moment? Do you have a sense of how many schools are not following the…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning, and thank you for coming. Julie, on your logistical questions, ASCL said in its statement that “work will be needed to get these measures right…Further changes…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)Q What do you think of the curtailment of academy freedoms in the Bill? It has now been published, so you have seen it, albeit that you were not talked to before. What do you…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)Q 89 Thank you for coming—welcome. I want to ask for your view on the second half of the Bill, on schools. We have heard a lot of criticism of it from the Confederation of School…21 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you to our witnesses for their patience while we voted. I was asking you about what you wrote in Schools Week , Rebecca—you said that the Bill was “not good legislation”…21 Jan 2025