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Children Schools and Families Bill

The link is to the bill on parliament's website. The text of the bill follows from here

I wonder if the "guarantees" in this are "cast iron guarantees" or not.

I need to go through the family proceedings stuff in detail, but it appears that Jack Straw's Civil Servants have betrayed him again and are setting up a system so that a journalist has to be present to say what went on and that otherwise reporting the proceedings even anonymously is still contempt.

Comments

Firebird said…
The whole thing is utter drivel. Most of it nothing more than transparent electioneering directed at middle class parents but with a dash of Orwellian thought control and double-speak thrown in to ensure that the whole is utterly un-passable by anyone with a shred of sanity and personal decency.
Unknown said…
Firebird,
Unfortunately politicians do not posses neither sanity nor decency. Their interest lies with themselves and their re-electability.
The onus for control is passed from school inspectors to already overworked and under-rescourced social services in LAs.
Politically it is non-contentious as the cost for carrying out the inspections and keeping the register of HEs will lie with the LAs.
The bill will pass without much debate. Unfortunately.

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