The DfE Bill was published yesterday with 15 key policies. 'The following policy summary notes provide information on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill as it is introduced in Parliament on Tuesday 17th December'. Please refer to the Schools Week article for more details.
The key policies are:
1. Three branded uniform items maximum
2. Flexi-schooled pupils will need to be on council registers
3. Beefed up school attendance orders
4. Special school parents need council permission for home education
5. New legal definition of full-time education
6. Ofsted gets power to seize illegal schools evidence
7. Teacher misconduct agency scope expanded
8. QTS and national curriculum requirement for academies
9. New non-compliance directions for academy trusts
10. No automatic academy orders
11. Councils can open new schools (but the Secretary of State will decide)
12. National pay rules extended to Academies (but not their Chief EDucation Officers)
13. Legal duty to co-operate on admissions…(at a local level)
14. … councils get power to direct academy admissions
15. And councils can object to academies’ capacity, too
By: Mike Aylen
On:19-12-2024
