Member

My amendments give two sets of very clear messages. Amendment 313 is a list of what it might be reasonable for a local authority to provide. I suspect that the Minister will say that this ought to be done in regulations, but it is useful to have a list to indicate the sorts of things that we are talking about and to draw out that there is some support. As I have said, the most valuable support was addressed in the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Storey: access to venues to take public exams. It is enormously difficult for that to happen. There is a range of items on this list; I am not wedded to the detail but to the idea that there should be examples of the type of support that can be and should be offered. In some cases, there is good support and in others, as we know, there is virtually no support or—as I think a lot of home-education parents would say—no support.