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Education Act 2011

A Bill to Make provision about education, childcare, apprenticeships and training; to make provision about schools and the school workforce, institutions within the further education sector and Academies; to abolish the General Teaching Council for England, the Training and Development Agency for Schools, the School Support Staff Negotiating Body, the Qualifications and Curriculum evelopment Agency and the Young People’s Learning Agency for England; to make provision about the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation and the Chief Executive of Skills Funding; to make provision about student loans and fees; and for connected purposes.

Now an Act of Parliament

The story so farThe Education Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 26 January 2011 by Michael Gove (Conservative). It completed its passage through Parliament and became law as the Education Act 2011, receiving Royal Assent on 15 November 2011.

What the bill does

<p>The Bill seeks to implement the legislative proposals in the Department for Education&rsquo;s schools White Paper, 'The Importance of Teaching' and measures from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills relating to skills and the reform of higher education funding. It is therefore a very wide-ranging Bill.</p><p><strong>Key areas</strong></p><ul><li>provides for the introduction of targeted free early years care for children under compulsory school age</li><li>makes changes to provisions on school discipline and places restrictions on the public reporting of allegations made against teachers</li><li>abolishes five quangos: the General Teaching Council for England, the Training and Development Agency for Schools, the School Support Staff Negotiating Body, the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency and the Young Person&rsquo;s Learning Agency and gives new powers to the Secretary of State as a consequence of some of these changes</li><li>removes certain duties on school governing bodies, local authorities and further education institutions, including the duty on local authorities to appoint school improvement partners</li><li>makes changes to the arrangements for setting up new schools, and amends the Academies Act 2010 to make provision for 16 to 19 academies and alternative provision academies</li><li>includes measures relating to school admissions, school meals, composition of school governing bodies, school inspection, school finance and permitted charges.</li></ul>

Progress through Parliament

  1. 1st reading Commons 26 Jan 2011
  2. 2nd reading Commons 8 Feb 2011
  3. Programme motion Commons 8 Feb 2011
  4. Money resolution Commons 8 Feb 2011
  5. Committee stage Commons 1 Mar to 5 Apr 2011
  6. Report stage Commons 11 May 2011
  7. 3rd reading Commons 11 May 2011
  8. 1st reading Lords 12 May 2011
  9. 2nd reading Lords 14 Jun 2011
  10. Committee stage Lords 28 Jun to 4 Oct 2011
  11. Report stage Lords 18 Oct to 1 Nov 2011
  12. 3rd reading Lords 9 Nov 2011
  13. Programme motion Commons 14 Nov 2011
  14. Consideration of Lords amendments Commons 14 Nov 2011
  15. Royal Assent Unassigned 15 Nov 2011

Source: the official bill page. Last updated 17 Nov 2011.