Children's services professionals have criticised the government forrevoking legislation designed to improve joint working and transparencyin schools.
Several duties introduced by the 2009 Apprenticeships, Skills, Childrenand Learning Act were due to come into force in September. But thegovernment has quietly rolled a number of these back, without consultingeducation professionals or the public.
The changes include scrapping legislation that would have forced schoolsto record when staff use force on pupils and report those incidents toparents and local authorities, and the requirement for schools andacademies to work together in behaviour partnerships.
John Fowler, policy analyst at the Children's Services Network, accusedthe government of attempting to "evade accountability", by changinglegislation immediately before parliament's summer recess. "Thecoalition government could have changed this during the previous twomonths," he said.
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