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Education Bill

My Lords, I, too, welcome the government amendment—or everybody's amendment, really. It clearly is right and proper that schools and children's services play their part within the broader community. In a recent survey of almost 1,000 governors, carried out by the National Governors Association and the TES, a significant majority of governors agreed that schools should play a key role in the provision of children's services in the area. Indeed, that makes sense, and is surely what the Government were aiming to do—to get everybody involved in children's education to work together for their benefit.