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Education and Adoption Act
Summary
This Act makes changes to how schools are run and how children in the care system can be adopted. It aims to improve education standards and help more children find permanent families, but it does this by changing rules about school management and adoption processes.
A vote to support means
- —Supporting this Act means believing that improving education quality and making it easier for children in care to be adopted are good things. Supporters think it helps more children get stable, loving homes and gives schools more freedom to improve standards.
A vote to oppose means
- —Critics worry the Act gives too much power to schools and reduces local control over education. Some are also concerned that changes to adoption rules might not properly protect children's welfare or that it could disadvantage certain groups of young people.
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Bill Passage
Commons
- 1st reading3 Jun 2015
- 2nd reading22 Jun 2015
- Committee stage30 Jun 2015
- Report stage16 Sept 2015
- 3rd reading16 Sept 2015
Lords
- 1st reading16 Sept 2015
- 2nd reading20 Oct 2015
- Committee stage5 Nov 2015
- Report stage1 Dec 2015
- 3rd reading8 Feb 2016
Royal Assent16 Mar 2016
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