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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

I shall speak also to Amendment 292. We are proposing these amendments on behalf of the Special Education Consortium and the National Deaf Children’s Society. Schools that get a good or excellent rating from Ofsted may have their normal Ofsted inspection put off for at least a year and have a "quick check" or a "health check". These two bodies are very anxious to ensure that schools do not get the health check without their special needs facilities being inspected by somebody who is qualified to inspect them. There is some evidence to show that schools that have been rated "good" or "excellent" sometimes have facilities for children with special educational needs that are not up to scratch, and they are very anxious to ensure that those schools are not given special treatment and allowed to put off their inspection without the authorities being absolutely clear that they are serving the more disadvantaged pupils and making sure that facilities for those pupils are up to scratch. I beg to move.