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Children and Families Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 7 January 2014. It occurred during Debate on bills on Children and Families Bill.

I pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Addington. I used the expression “a dog with a bone” in Committee. He has stuck with this issue and made real progress on it. I also congratulate the Government, because we have now seen real movement: there have to be properly qualified special educational needs co-ordinators in schools. That is real progress, and the Government are to be congratulated on taking that important step.

My noble friend rightly points out two areas. One is the need to ensure that all teachers, particularly those in primary education, have training—perhaps a unit of training—in special educational needs. Every report has shown that the two crucial elements are early identification of a problem and providing the resources to deal with it. I hope that we might see movement on that. Maybe we can move towards a road map for how we ensure that all teachers going into our schools have an understanding—maybe a qualification—of special educational needs. I have forgotten the second issue, so I will sit down.

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

750 c1467 

Session

2013-14

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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