Children's minister Margaret Hodge is known to have pushed for governors to get a statutory role in the Children Bill, but junior education minister Baroness Ashton rejected an opposition amendment to facilitate that.
School standards minister David Milliband is known to be against the proposal.
Figures released this week show that the Government is in danger of missing its targets on improving the education of looked-after children (see p8).
Ashton also turned down opposition amendments to give councils a duty to take into account the wishes of children; to tackle discrimination against race and disability; to prescribe the identity of the chair of the local safeguarding children board; and to give councils more discretion over the appointment of the director of children's services.
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