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Baroness Humphreys

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Education: English Baccalaureate

Schools: Faith Schools

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House Committee and Liaison Committee
Monday 14th December 2015

(8 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I can confirm to my noble friend now that the church would not be forced to part with the land, and nor would it be compulsorily purchased.

Baroness Humphreys Portrait Baroness Humphreys (LD)
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Protecting the ethos of particular schools is not confined to church schools. There is a widespread feeling that multiacademy chains make new academies in their own image. How will the Minister ensure that locally developed values, nurtured over the years, can be maintained?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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The noble Baroness makes an extremely good point. It is very important that sponsors coming into schools are very conscious of what the noble Baroness calls “locally developed values” and make sure that schools’ traditions, which I am very well aware of in relation to one school that I sponsor, are maintained.

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