Home Education (Duty of Local Authorities) Bill [HL]

My Lords, does the noble Lord think that a better solution might be if schools did not exclude pu...

I am sorry, but I did not hear the noble Lord.

Does the noble Lord think that, rather than parents being obliged to home educate their children ...

My Lords, that is quite possible, but schools and parents can deal only with the circumstances in...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, and his amendment, primarily because this is the ...

My Lords, I agree mostly with what the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, said about home education and I co...

Perhaps I may put a question to my noble friend. Is he aware that 70% of youngsters excluded from...

My noble friend makes a good point, but I want to remain constructive. Great though my admiration...

My Lords, on the noble Lord’s reference to philosophical preferences, my recollection, as a Membe...

I understand what the noble Lord is saying, but it is quite difficult for the state to start maki...

Does my noble friend agree that part of the problem is the weakening of local authorities and the...

My noble friend and I could debate academies over a good deal of time, and indeed we have done ov...

My Lords, I apologise for not speaking at Second Reading—please forgive me. I have to declare an ...

My Lords, before I turn to the amendment, I want to say that of course no one wants to see pupils...

My Lords, I rise to speak in your Lordships’ debate with some trepidation because education is no...

The noble Lord is making a very interesting discourse but can he explain how it has any connectio...

Absolutely. The connection, which may upset people, is that I think the Bill is total nonsense in...

My Lords, those of us who were present at Second Reading were clear about the importance of keepi...

I take the noble Baroness’s hint. I shall wind up my discourse by saying this. If we are to see i...

Please can we stop bringing things into the debate, as the noble Baroness said? Why do we need to...

I am grateful for that last-minute intervention. Anybody who believed that home education could n...

My Lords, I declare an interest as patron of an organisation called SkillForce, which is probably...

My Lords, I note my noble friend Lord Soley’s request to be mindful of time constraints and will ...

My Lords, on 24 November at Second Reading I made it clear that we understood the concerns that h...

My Lords, I am very encouraged by that reply from my noble friend, particularly his last sentence...

Moved by

Lord Soley

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 6, leave out “monitor” and insert “asse...

I hope this will be very brief as it is a simple amendment. It would change “monitor” to “assess”...

Moved by

Lord Soley

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 8, leave out “monitor” and insert “asse...

Moved by

Lord Soley

4: Clause 1, page 1, line 8, leave out “, physical and emotional”...

This amendment is slightly more complicated but it has the same sort of background. When I wrote ...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

5: Clause 1, page 1, line 9, after “receiving” insert “full time”...

My Lords, the function of the amendments in this group is, I hope, to demonstrate to the Governme...

My Lords, if Amendment 27 is agreed to in this group, I cannot accept Amendment 28 by reasons of ...

I am quite interested in the argument that the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, has put. We have had a num...

I hesitate to stop progress and I apologise for not speaking at Second Reading because I was othe...

My Lords, these definitions are by way of illustration only, and I entirely accept the questions ...

Moved by

Lord Soley

6: Clause 1, page 1, line 10, at end insert—

“( ) Local aut...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, for putting his name to this amendment. This is the...

My Lords, I support this amendment. I understand the limitations of a Private Member’s Bill. The ...

My Lords, we very much support the amendment. It is a huge decision when you decide to teach your...

Personally, my Lords, I think we need to be a bit careful with this. Given the conversation on Am...

I think it is really interesting that we are talking about the legitimacy of home education. The ...

To sum this up, if I may, I very much welcome those remarks. The noble Lord, Lord Lucas, again ma...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

7: Clause 1, page 1, leave out lines 11 and 12

My Lords, the purpose of this amendment is to enable some discussion on the subject of registrati...

My Lords, I must inform the Committee that if Amendment 7 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments ...

My Lords, I strongly oppose the amendment. I do so because the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, seems to b...

This is an opportunity to, and I hope the Government will, consider the points made. It is shocki...

I am of the view that it would be better if we had a system where, when a child becomes of school...

My Lords, in speaking to Amendment 8 in my name I shall brief, because it is really a matter of c...

Very briefly, just to comment on the amendment proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, it ...

My Lords, I am very attracted by the amendment proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker. It ...

Can I just explain my position on this? I speak as someone who spent six years as a director of s...

Maybe this is not the place to broaden the discussion about home education, but it is so interest...

My Lords, to pick up on what the noble Lord, Lord Warner, said, a local authority that has a dece...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

9: Clause 1, page 1, line 14, at end insert—

“( ) An assess...

My Lords, assessment is a serious problem if it is overemphasised in this context. Of the populat...

My Lords, I have a degree of sympathy with this set of amendments. As the noble Lord suggested, s...

I add to the comments made by the noble Lord, Lord Addington, that there are many ways to skin a ...

My Lords, briefly, on safeguarding, many home educators bring in people from outside to teach in ...

I do not wish to take up the House’s time on this, because I am conscious that there is another B...

My Lords, I strongly support Amendments 16A and 19A, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Storey. We ca...

My Lords, to pick up on the amendments proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Storey, it seems sensible...

Does the noble Lord not accept that anybody working closely or intimately with children, whether ...

I am entirely comfortable with that and I have been through the process myself in the context of ...

Perhaps I may clarify that. Amendment 16A refers to “other adults”; it does not say “the parent”....

My Lords, I appreciate that we are near a borderline and that this is a matter for discussion, bu...

My Lords, the noble Lord has made some very valid points but I am concerned by the length at whic...

My Lords, I do not think that with the point that we have got to there is any great danger of run...

Moved by

Lord Soley

10: Clause 1, page 1, line 15, leave out “monitor” and insert “as...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

12: Clause 1, page 1, line 19, at end insert “and the setting or ...

My Lords, the amendments in this group are an attempt to show the Government that this is a Bill ...

My Lords, if Amendment 12 is agreed to, there will be consequential arrangements in respect of Am...

My Lords, I think we are a long way short of having time problems—we have 45 minutes for the last...

My Lords, these are complicated amendments that need to be considered in the process that we have...

My Lords, if there was a time pressure, my noble friend Lord Cormack would be in his place. If th...

Moved by

Lord Addington

23: Clause 2, page 2, line 22, leave out subsection (2)

My Lords, Clause 2, and in particular subsection (2), caused me considerable disquiet when first ...

I discussed this with the noble Lord, Lord Addington, and I understand his strength of feeling ab...

I apologise to the Committee. I should have made it clear that if Amendment 23, which is currentl...

Perhaps I may respond to that. Although I am severely tempted, I shall not call a Division now. I...

My Lords, perhaps I may speak briefly to my amendments in this group. I share the concerns of the...

My Lords, it may be helpful if I offer to have a meeting with the noble Lords, Lord Addington and...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for that helpful intervention and I welcome it.

My Lords, given that assurance and the fact that we are going to take a look at this issue, I sha...

Moved by

Lord Soley

29: In the Title, line 1, leave out “monitor” and insert “assess”...