Can the Minister clarify one thing? On one hand, he tells my noble friend Lady Garden that it is not reasonable to take away the employer's duty to check at all; but on the other, he tells the noble Baroness, Lady Verma, that the Government do not intend that employers should spend a lot of time satisfying themselves that the education and training arrangements that the young person has made fulfil the duty by including enough hours, because that would take them too long. I certainly agree with that approach. Can the Minister explain what the word ““appropriate”” in Clause 21 means? He suggests that the employer must be satisfied that all such steps as are reasonable have been taken by the young person to make, "““appropriate arrangements for training or education””."
If appropriate does not mean, ““such arrangements as to fulfil the duty to participate””, what does it mean?
Education and Skills Bill
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Baroness Walmsley
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 1 July 2008.
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Debate on bills on Education and Skills Bill.
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