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Education Bill

My Lords, these Benches certainly welcome Clause 13. Our Amendment 75 extends Clause 13 to include sixth-form colleges and colleges of FE. In the interest of moving on, I shall not repeat most of the arguments already made, although I will add one point. As a result of the Woolf report, staff in colleges of FE will teach young people aged between 14 and 16 on vocational courses. This is to be applauded as CFEs are far better places to deliver vocational courses, but it means that, for the first time, much younger pupils will be in those colleges. They deserve the same level of protection as afforded by Clause 13. This provision adds a bit more meat to that. Amendment 75A calls for a report on the whole process two years down the line to see whether the process has worked, to collect data and, on the basis of that evidence, to consider extending the reporting restrictions to all staff in schools and FE colleges. Will the Minister consider this extension of the provisions in Clause 13 to include colleagues in FE colleges and review the process after two years to extend it further to other staff dealing with students in colleges and schools?