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Education Bill

My Lords, perhaps I may help the noble Baroness, which would be unusual from my position to hers. The Minister sent me a most useful document, Customer Voice Research: Behaviour and Discipline Powers in Schools, for which I thank him very much. It is extremely helpful to me in my arguments, I fear, in several places. As regards powers of discipline, a teacher commented that she was completely, "““unaware … of the ‘main powers’ available to teachers””." Teachers say, for example, that the powers sound ““really antiquated””. They have said, ““I don’t understand it””, and, "““I don’t feel confident that the Head would back me up””," if I was to do this. It seems to me that this is about knowledge, culture and leadership, and not about legislation. We should not be legislating for executive powers; we should be legislating for strategic options, the things which I have just mentioned.