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Education and Inspections Act

Key Benefits
The key benefits in Education and Inspections Bill are to: require local authorities to promote choice, diversity and high standards, to respond to parents not satisfied with schools in their area, and to identify children missing from education; establish a legal process for schools to become Trust schools; require governing bodies of certain types of foundation schools to establish Parent Councils, and require all maintained schools to consider the views of parents; reaffirm the ban on selection by ability, and ban interviewing for school admissions; empower local authorities to tackle school failure and underperformance more quickly and effectively; create new specialised diplomas for 14-19 learners, and ensure that all pupils have access to these; require local authorities to provide free transport for disadvantaged pupils and to assess the travel needs of all pupils; permit nutritional standards to be applied to all food and drink supplied on school premises; allow teachers to discipline pupils, extend the scope of parenting orders and parenting contracts, and require parents to take responsibility for excluded pupils; establish a single inspectorate, namely the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills.

Act of Parliament

Explanatory Notes

Regulatory Impact assessment

Territorial Extent
United Kingdom

Comments

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Additional Information

The Bill will implement measures in the 14-19 Education and Skills White Paper and the recommendations of the Practitioner's Group on Behaviour and Discipline (also known as the Steer report)