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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

My Lords, if we are trading trades unions, the NAHT is also against it, as are the ASCL and the NUT, so that is three against one. Let me make it quite clear that we on these Benches are not against making behaviour partnerships statutory, but we still disagree about the best way to make sure that that happens. I still think that it is not appropriate to give this to the CTB and I do not think that that will work very well. Once it is statutory it will go right up the list of those things that Ofsted will inspect, and so it should. Ofsted is very concerned about what schools do—about ensuring that children with SEN are not unnecessarily or unjustly excluded. I know that Ofsted takes that very seriously. It would look very carefully at how schools address these issues and how they work with other schools to do so. The CTB is absolutely the wrong agency, but I can see that we are not having a meeting of minds over this, so for the moment I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 218 withdrawn. Amendments 219 to 221 not moved. Amendment 222 Moved by