Research Briefing
This is a report of the House of Commons Committee Stage of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill. It complements Research Papers 09/14 and 09/15 prepared for the Commons Second Reading debate.
Research Briefing
This is a report on the Committee Stage of the Welfare Reform Bill. It complements Research Papers 09/08 and 09/09 prepared for Commons Second Reading.
Research Briefing
This Bill would require local authorities to collect and share information about people with autism, in order to assist in the provision of services. The Bill also contains measures to promote multi-agency working in the delivery of services, and the effective transition from child to adult services, for people with autism.
Research Briefing
This paper is one of two which examine the main proposals of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill 2008-09. It deals with the provisions relating to the dissolution of the Learning and Skills Council, the transfer to local authorities of responsibility for funding 16 to 18 education and training; the education of offenders; the creation of the Young Person’s Learning Agency and the Skills Funding Agency; and the legal identity of sixth-form colleges. The paper also covers the new regulatory body for qualifications (Ofqual); and a new agency to carry out the non-regulatory functions currently performed by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. The Bill seeks to strengthen the accountability of children’s services; amend intervention powers in respect of schools which are causing concern; provide for a new parental complaints service; change the school inspection arrangements; create a new negotiating body for school support staff pay and conditions; and address issues related to pupil and student behaviour. See also Research Paper 09/14.
Research Briefing
This paper is one of two which examine the main proposals of the Welfare Reform Bill 2008-09. It deals with Parts 2-4 of the Bill, which include provisions for a new right for disabled people to control how public resources are used to meet their needs, new powers to enforce child maintenance, and for the joint registration of births. See also Research Paper 09/08.
Research Briefing
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on tax credits and childcare costs, from 2009.
Research Briefing
This note sets out the scale and nature of the problems associated with child labour and details the current action being taken to try to solve the issues.
Research Briefing
Children and Young Persons Bill [HL] Committee Stage Report. (Bill 8 of 2007/08). House of Commons Library Research Paper 08/72.
Research Briefing
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on the Children and Adoption Act 2006, from 2008.
Research Briefing
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on the education of looked after children, from 2008.
Research Briefing
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill - progress of the Bill, from 2008.
Research Briefing
Health and Social Care Bill. (Bill 9 of 2007/08). House of Commons Library Research Paper 07/81.
Research Briefing
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill Committee Stage Report. (Bill 156 2006/07). House of Commons Library Research Paper 07/73.
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