The bill formerly know as “Improving schools and safeguarding children”
I’m seriously beginning to doubt that Labour have any expectation, or even any desire to see their new education bill survive. Home Educators are currently fighting to have licensing (registration in DCSF-speak) removed from the bill but looking at the other elements it’s hard to see that any of it will survive. They’ve weighed it down with policies that have teachers, schools and LAs up in arms. It’s all looking more and more like a desperate and pathetically transparent effort to win back some middle class voters, promising them all sorts of powers over their child’s school including the right to sue if they don’t get what they want.