Decision details
Stage 3 Standing Order 26.44 debate on the Education (Wales) Bill
Decision Maker: Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fourth Assembly, Business Committee - Fourth Assembly, Plenary - Fourth Assembly, Finance Committee - Fourth Assembly
Is Key decision?: Yes
Purpose:
A Government Bill, introduced by Huw Lewis, Minister for Education and Skills. The Business Committee remitted the Bill to the Children, Young People and Education Committee.
About the Act
The Education (Wales) Bill seeks to legislate in the following areas:
- the
Education Workforce Council including the registration and regulation of
teachers and the wider workforce;
- school
term dates;
- the
appointment of HM Chief Inspector and HM Inspectors of education and
training in Wales under section 19 of the Education Act 2005.
On its introduction the Bill also
contained provisions relating to Special Educational Needs (SEN), as follows:
- reform
of the registration and approval of independent schools in respect of
special educational needs;
- post-16
assessment of educational and training needs and specialist Further
Education (FE).
These SEN provisions were removed
from the Bill during Stage 2 proceedings.
Current Stage
The Education (Wales) Act 2014 (external website) became law in Wales (external website) on 12 May 2014.
Record of Passage in
the National Assembly for Wales
The following table sets out the dates for each stage of the Bill’s passage through the National Assembly for Wales.
Stage |
Documents |
Bill introduced – 1 July 2013 |
Explanatory
Memorandum (PDF, 636KB) Presiding
Officer’s Statement: 1 July 2013 (PDF, 114KB) Business
Committee’s Report on the timetable for consideration of the Bill: 1 July
2013 (PDF, 47KB) Plenary
statement: Introduction of the Education (Wales) Bill: 2 July 2013 Research Service Bill
Summary (PDF, 390KB) Legislative
Glossary – Education (Wales) Bill (PDF, 135KB) |
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The Committee will consider the Bill on the
following dates: 6 November 2013 (private) 14 November 2013 (private) Committee
Stage 1 Report (PDF, 684KB) Constitutional
and Legislative Affairs Committee report (PDF, 508KB) |
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Notices of Amendments: Notice
of Amendments: 13 December 2013 (PDF, 73KB) Notice
of Amendments: 6 January 2014 (PDF, 50KB) Notice
of Amendments: 7 January 2014 (PDF, 79KB) Notice
of Amendments: 16 January 2014 (PDF, 120KB) Marshalled
List of Amendments: 23 January 2014 (PDF, 144) Grouping
of Amendments: 23 January 2014 (PDF, 62KB) Education
(Wales) Bill, as amended at Stage 2 (Amendments to the Bill since the
previous version are indicated by sidelining in the right margin) (PDF,
215KB) Research
Service Bill Summary 2 (PDF, 130KB) Revised
Explanatory Memorandum (PDF, 858KB) |
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Notices of Amendments: Notice
of Amendments: 30 January 2014 (PDF, 50KB) Notice
of Amendments: 12 February 2014 (PDF, 50KB) Notice
of Amendments: 28 February 2014 (PDF, 56KB) Notice
of Amendments: 3 March 2014 (PDF, 56KB) Notice
of Amendments: 4 March 2014 (PDF, 91KB) Marshalled
List of Amendments: 11 March 2014 (PDF, 101KB) Grouping
of Amendments: 11 March 2014 (PDF, 63KB) Education
(Wales) Bill, as amended at Stage 3
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The Bill was agreed by the Assembly in accordance
with SO 12.36 on 25
March 2014. Education
(Wales) Bill, as passed (Crown XML) |
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Contact information
Clerk: Marc Wyn Jones
Phone: 029 2089 8505
Second Clerk: Gareth Rogers
Postal address:
National Assembly for Wales
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1NA
Email: CYPcommittee@wales.gov.uk
Decision:
The item started at 16.33
In accordance with Standing Order
26.36, amendments will be disposed of in the order which the sections and
schedules to which they relate, arise in the Bill.
The amendments have been grouped for the purposes of
debate and the groupings will be debated as follows:
1. Name of
Education Workforce Council
20, 2, 24, 25, 26
2. Aims and
functions of the Council
21, 3, 58
3. Training
and continued professional development
49, 50, 54
4.
Registration fees
51
5.
Legislative procedures (CLA Committee recommendations)
28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35,
36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
6. Induction
and appraisal
4
7.
Disciplinary functions
22, 5, 6, 7, 23, 10
8. Education
Act 1996: definitions
8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
9. Dates of
school holidays
27
10. Funding
for grants
52, 53, 55
11. Extending
registration for youth workers
56, 57
12. Technical
12
13. Long
title
19, 1
Voting was taken in the order set
out in the Marshalled List of Amendments.
A vote was taken on Amendment 20:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order
6.20 the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 2:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order
6.20 the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 21:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
14 |
13 |
27 |
54 |
Amendment 21 was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 3:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order
6.20 the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 58:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20
the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 49:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20
the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 50:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20
the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 51:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20
the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendments 28,
29, 30, 31and 32, which were disposed of en
bloc:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20
the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendments. Therefore, the amendments were not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 4:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
13 |
14 |
54 |
Amendment 4 was agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 33:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20
the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 22:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required
by Standing Order 6.20 the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting
against the amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
Amendments 5, 6 and 7 were disposed of en bloc and were agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.
Amendment 8 was agreed in accordance with Standing Order
12.36.
Amendment 9 was agreed in accordance with Standing Order
12.36.
A vote was taken on Amendment 27:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order
6.20 the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 34:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20
the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 35:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
26 |
1 |
27 |
54 |
Amendment 35 was not agreed.
As amendment
22 was not agreed, amendment 23 fell.
A vote was taken on Amendments 36,
37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 45,
which were disposed of en bloc:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20
the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendments. Therefore, the amendments were not agreed.
Amendment 10 was agreed in accordance with Standing Order
12.36.
A vote was taken on Amendment 46:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20
the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
Amendment 47 was not moved.
Amendment 48 was not moved.
Amendment 11 was agreed in accordance with Standing Order
12.36.
A vote was taken on Amendment 52:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20
the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 53:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
18 |
0 |
36 |
54 |
Amendment 53 was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 54:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
18 |
0 |
36 |
54 |
Amendment 54 was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 55:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
18 |
0 |
36 |
54 |
Amendment 55 was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 56:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20
the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the
amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
As amendment 56 was not agreed, amendment 57 fell.
Amendment 24 was not moved.
Amendment 12 was agreed in accordance with Standing Order
12.36.
Amendment 25 was not moved.
Amendment 26 was not moved.
Amendments 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 were disposed of en bloc and were agreed in
accordance with Standing Order 12.36.
Amendment 19 was not moved.
Amendment 1 was agreed in accordance with Standing Order
12.36.
All
sections and schedules of the Bill were deemed agreed, concluding Stage 3
proceedings.
Publication date: 11/03/2014
Date of decision: 11/03/2014
Decided at meeting: 11/03/2014 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly