Member

Amendment 502YD in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hampton, seeks to exempt academies and maintained schools judged outstanding or equivalent from a range of requirements. As I have said, the curriculum requirements do not constrain schools from being excellent, innovative or reflective of the needs of their pupils. They provide a minimum assurance, the vast majority of which it has been agreed for many years should apply to all schools. This amendment would remove the common floor we are creating for pupils and then the foundations, which would have to be immediately reinstated if the school was judged less than outstanding. That would be enormously disruptive for pupils and staff.