Schools Bill Emergency Update!

It started with Attendance Guidance in January. Then the SEND Review in March. Here comes the first legislation. It contains changes that will disproportionately impact vunerable families.

Not support for lack of school places, attendance barriers, home educators - but standards of blanket punishment on a national scale.

On Monday 23rd May the #SchoolsBill will have a Second Reading in the House of Lords. 

The Bill is aiming to change the Education Act, introducing:

"new requirements for schools, trusts and councils to work together to drive the highest possible levels of attendance in every corner of the country."

Introducing new standards for all pupils in primary school to reach, forcing all schools to become academies if LA chooses, changes for those regularly not in school, forcing home educators to register under threat of £2,500 fines /prison, and to share their and their children's private data with undisclosed third parties.

Yet again, maginalised families will suffer as a direct result of this bill. 

Please sign, share this petition - and find #StopTheSchoolsBill on Twitter and join the campaign. 

Protect not prosecute