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Debate on bill on Friday, 1 February 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Sharon Hodgson. The answering member was Lord Brennan of Canton.

Special Educational Needs (Information) Bill

Special Educational Needs (Information) Bill. Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Bill committed to a Public Bill Committee.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
471 c558-612 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Private members' bills proceedings
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Barry Sheerman | 471 c568 (Link to this contribution) We all know that many schools deliberately exclude children with special educational needs. Many par...
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Annette Brooke | 471 c567-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and he sums up the feeling in the House that not eno...
John Bercow | 471 c567 (Link to this contribution) I wonder if I may put to the hon. Lady something that only the other day illustrated to me the failu...
Annette Brooke | 471 c569-70 (Link to this contribution) That is true. There are great variations in intake and that is then reflected in the results of the ...
Barry Sheerman | 471 c569 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has misunderstood my point. The intake of so many schools in the independent sector, o...
Annette Brooke | 471 c568 (Link to this contribution) I am in danger of taking part in debates on several issues this morning as I care about so many of t...
Baroness Keeley | 471 c570-2 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to speak in support of the Bill. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead...
Anne Snelgrove | 471 c574 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead, East and Washington, West (Mrs. Hodgso...
Christopher Fraser | 471 c572-4 (Link to this contribution) As a dyslexic and the father of two dyslexic children, and as secretary of the all-party group on dy...
Kelvin Hopkins | 471 c576 (Link to this contribution) I agree strongly with what my hon. Friend says. Does she agree that if a child has particularly larg...
Anne Snelgrove | 471 c576-7 (Link to this contribution) I find that an intriguing way forward, particularly as I represent a small unitary authority—as does...
Anne Snelgrove | 471 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his correction and apologise to Baroness Warnock—I must have inferred...
Mark Williams | 471 c575 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Lady’s enthusiasm for the Bill. We have talked a lot about the confidence of parent...
Anne Snelgrove | 471 c575 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The Government are to be commended for increasing the number of teaching assistants work...
Maria Miller | 471 c575 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady share the concern of the organisation Xtraordinary People, which found in a recen...
Anne Snelgrove | 471 c575-6 (Link to this contribution) I have not seen that survey, so I shall just make some general comments. I shall come to definitions...
John Bercow | 471 c578-80 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure and privilege to follow the hon. Member for South Swindon (Anne Snelgrove), w...
Sharon Hodgson | 471 c560-1 (Link to this contribution) I hope we will discuss that issue further in Committee and that Ministers will take it on board. It ...
Mark Williams | 471 c560 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady acknowledge that there is a particular need for that in postgraduate certificate ...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 471 c592 (Link to this contribution) I agree. Part of my constituency covers a rural community, and I hope that the needs of the young pe...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 471 c592-4 (Link to this contribution) I accept that point. There are examples in my constituency of children’s centres reaching out throug...
John Bercow | 471 c592 (Link to this contribution) The point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) is important and we hear a...
John Bercow | 471 c595 (Link to this contribution) Many of us believe that local authorities are in an unacceptably powerful position as the bodies tha...
Kelvin Hopkins | 471 c594-5 (Link to this contribution) I too congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead, East and Washington, West (Mrs. Hodgson)...
Kelvin Hopkins | 471 c595-6 (Link to this contribution) In an earlier intervention, I suggested that funding for children with serious special needs should ...
John Bercow | 471 c596 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a characteristically powerful speech. What really worries me and, I sus...
Kelvin Hopkins | 471 c596-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes the point powerfully. I have had precisely the experience he describes. I m...
Lord Harper | 471 c597 (Link to this contribution) We need to look at inclusion not just in education but throughout the rest of the child’s life. One ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 471 c597 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I agree. In fact, there is so much agreement this morning that there is almost no need to ma...
Maria Miller | 471 c597-600 (Link to this contribution) I join all the other Members in the House today in congratulating the hon. Member for Gateshead, Eas...
John Bercow | 471 c604 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a fantastic speech. I know that she will not be disappointed to hear that i...
Maria Miller | 471 c602-4 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend’s point, which could apply whether Ofsted or another organisation was in...
John Bercow | 471 c602 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has once again offered a powerful illustration of some of the endemic difficulties fr...
Maria Miller | 471 c600-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. He has made my next point for me. The Minister will ta...
Maria Miller | 471 c605 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. I know that he speaks with a great deal of experience o...
Lynda Waltho | 471 c605 (Link to this contribution) Let me reassure hon. Members. There is not necessarily a prejudice against synthetic phonics. Those ...
Maria Miller | 471 c604 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that comment. I, too, have been privy to some of the sermons by my hon. F...
Kelvin Hopkins | 471 c604;471 c604-5 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that in addition to the problem of teachers not being trained to teach synt...
John Bercow | 471 c584-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point. What is needed is the opportunity for group purchasing. I...
John Bercow | 471 c582-4 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. That rather underlines the point that there have to be cer...
Kelvin Hopkins | 471 c584 (Link to this contribution) Again, I agree most strongly with what the hon. Gentleman is saying. There is perhaps a compromise b...
John Bercow | 471 c581-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I would like to emphasise this point about the courses. The ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 471 c582 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an excellent speech with which I strongly agree. He talked about far-si...
John Bercow | 471 c580-1 (Link to this contribution) He was not; he was simply chuntering from a sedentary position. However, I am sure that he takes a c...
Lord Harper | 471 c581 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. Continuing professional development is key, because of the range ...
John Bercow | 471 c585-6 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. In fact, the statistics on that front are seriously alarming. It is not just expressive spee...
Kelvin Hopkins | 471 c588 (Link to this contribution) I applaud my hon. Friend for raising the issue of foetal alcohol syndrome, which is something in whi...
Lynda Waltho | 471 c586-8 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow), who made an interesting and mov...
Lynda Waltho | 471 c588-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We know about the cases that are diagnosed, and children born wi...
Lord Harper | 471 c589-91 (Link to this contribution) I begin by paying tribute to the hon. Member for Gateshead, East and Washington, West (Mrs. Hodgson)...
John Bercow | 471 c591 (Link to this contribution) What my hon. Friend has said about the work of TreeHouse is right. I visited TreeHouse and it provid...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 471 c591-2 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be able to support the Bill. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead,...
Nigel Evans | 471 c592 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that what is taking place in Durham is effective for the youngsters and parents who live t...
Sharon Hodgson | 471 c561 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is a sensible suggestion from my hon. Friend, who is Chairman of the new Children, Schools...
Barry Sheerman | 471 c561 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government have a unique opportunity this Monday, when they publi...
Sharon Hodgson | 471 c561 (Link to this contribution) Indeed I am, and I enjoy every moment. At the moment, more than 24,000 pupils have ““other”” regist...
Barry Sheerman | 471 c561 (Link to this contribution) Of which my hon. Friend is a member.
Sharon Hodgson | 471 c562-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes. That is another very good idea, which we should explore further in Committee. The Government r...
Anne Snelgrove | 471 c562 (Link to this contribution) I commend my hon. Friend for her desire to ensure that all teachers have training in recognising SEN...
Sharon Hodgson | 471 c563-5 (Link to this contribution) That information is very important, as my hon. Friend rightly says, and it certainly could be monito...
Barry Sheerman | 471 c563 (Link to this contribution) Should we not include in such statistics, as the Select Committee strongly recommended, information ...
Barry Sheerman | 471 c566 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that not only the initial teacher training process, but the continuous prof...
Annette Brooke | 471 c565-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Gateshead, East and Washington, West (Mrs. Hodgson) on obtaining ...
Annette Brooke | 471 c566-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, because I agree that that is the case. The Governme...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 471 c610 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. Those transition points are key to the development of children, and...
Annette Brooke | 471 c610 (Link to this contribution) I recall that the Dyslexia Association has a kitemark that schools and local authorities can aspire ...
Sharon Hodgson | 471 c612 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I simply want to thank everybody for coming along today. It has...
Maria Miller | 471 c605-6 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Lady’s point, and I have heard that argument made in particular by people with...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 471 c606-10 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mrs. Miller) asked me on several occasions to respond to the debate...
John Bercow | 471 c610 (Link to this contribution) As children and young people can often encounter traffic jams, as it were, and lethargy as they go f...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 471 c610-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a very valuable suggestion; I shall certainly look at it after today’s debate. ...
John Bercow | 471 c600 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend offers a formidable list of public commitments not yet fully honoured. I put it to he...
Lord Harper | 471 c577 (Link to this contribution) I want to convey a small point of information. Baroness Warnock is a Cross Bencher, not a representa...
Sharon Hodgson | 471 c558-60 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I place on the record my gratitude to every...
Sharon Hodgson | 471 c585 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman also acknowledge that as well as speech and language difficulties, some youn...
Lord Harper | 471 c591 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. There are two ways of looking at this. There is...
Subjects
Disability Children Disclosure of information Autism Hearing impairment Finance Dyslexia Pupils Schools Special educational needs
Legislation
Special Educational Needs (Information) Bill 2007-08
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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