Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what outcomes they expect amending the provision of teachers’ pay and conditions warning notices to produce.

We are making amendments to teachers’ pay and conditions warning notices in the Education and Adoption Bill to be consistent with the changes we are making to performance standards and safety warning notices. We will allow local authorities to set an appropriate timescale for a school to take effective remedial action, rather than, as now, being bound by the existing requirement of 15 working days. We will also remove the school’s right to make representations to the local authority against a notice. This will ensure that the school begins to take steps immediately to remedy the matters in the notice. We will also require a local authority to inform the Secretary of State that they have given a notice to a school. This will ensure that where a regional schools commissioner intends to intervene in an underperforming school they are aware of any action the local authority is taking in that school.