Member

These amendments offer a practical and proportionate solution. They would not open the floodgates; they would create a specific targeted right for a parent to appeal to the First-tier Tribunal, but only after the school’s own process is complete and only when the complaint concerns a breach of a specified legal duty, such as the duty of political impartiality under the Education Act 1996, or the general duties in respect of the curriculum. The precise powers and procedures of the tribunal would be set out in detail in regulations made by the Secretary of State and would be subject to effective parliamentary scrutiny.