Bill designed to raise education standards dropped

A measure designed to "raise acquisition standards" crossed England has been dropped, the acquisition caput has said.

The Schools Bill included plans for a registry of children who are missing lessons, and for each schools to go portion of multi-academy trusts.

It has deed hurdles since it was introduced this year.

Gillian Keegan said parts of the government's program did not request authorities and were being implemented.

Speaking to MPs, she confirmed that the measure "will not progress" to its 3rd speechmaking successful the House of Lords.

Ms Keegan said "parliamentary clip has decidedly been reprioritised" to absorption connected tackling the rising outgo of living, "because of the pandemic aftershocks but besides the warfare successful Ukraine".

However, she said ministers "remain committed" to the objectives of the Schools Bill, and would beryllium "prioritising immoderate aspects of the measure arsenic good to spot what we tin do".

"A batch of the Schools White Paper is being implemented and didn't necessitate authorities successful galore cases," she said - referring to a argumentation papers that acceptable retired the government's imaginativeness for acquisition this year, immoderate of which was meant to beryllium achieved done the Schools Bill.

Ms Keegan said a registry of children who are not successful schoolhouse was "definitely a priority". Robin Walker, president of the acquisition committee of MPs, said helium wanted to perceive however that would beryllium legislated for instead.

The authorities wanted to usage the Schools Bill to legislate connected issues specified arsenic the operation and regularisation of academies, schoolhouse attendance, and schoolhouse funding.

But the authorities has deed hurdles since it was introduced this year, with peers successful the House of Lords calling proposals connected academies a "power grab" that gave the authorities excessively overmuch control.

In June, the authorities gutted its ain bill, removing 18 clauses relating to the regularisation of academies.

It had been owed to travel backmost with caller proposals - until now.

The scrapping of the measure is apt to disappoint Conservative MPs who had hoped to usage it to overturn a prohibition connected caller grammar schools.