We Reckoned Without Our Host
“All compromise with institutions of which your conscience disapproves, compromises which are usually made for the sake of the general good, instead of producing the good you expected, inevitably lead you not …
Tag: Children Not in School
What on Earth is Happening to the Schools Bill?
A Prime Minister resigns, three Education Secretaries within thirty-six hours, their Noble Lords are in revolt and the Department for Education tries to pretend there is nothing wrong with Parts 3 & …
A Rush Job, Thrown into the Public Domain Before it was Ready?
Schools Bill severely criticised for lack of proper detail in Lords Committee Stage first sitting What’s been said? The Schools Bill has been making waves in the House of Lords even before …
Counting Children
Challenging rhetoric and addressing long-standing confusion over the assertion that collecting data on every child matters What’s been said? This Byte reports on four recent items, two from Defend Digital Me [DDM] …
The Schools Bill has Landed!
Despite recent and oft repeated signalling by the Department for Education that parliamentary time had not been allocated for the introduction of CNiS registers, the Schools Bill came quickly out of the …
Proposals for Local Authority Registers Create Wider Concerns
Articles published on websites outside the HE communities emphasise the dangers of the plans for registers of children not in school for all families, especially as they are now being conflated with …