Al-Madinah Free School Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Al-Madinah Free School

Lord Storey Excerpts
Thursday 17th October 2013

(11 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Storey Portrait Lord Storey (LD)
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My Lords, does the Minister agree that the Government acted decisively and promptly to ensure that this action was taken? However, will he also reflect on the need to ensure that teachers and the leadership of our free schools should be fully qualified so that occurrences such as this are least likely to happen?

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My Lords, there are plenty of teachers in schools up and down the country who do not have formal qualifications and are doing an excellent job, but we ensure through Ofsted that teaching in these schools is good, and we will ensure that the governance and leadership of these schools is appropriate.