Making the announcement yesterday (7 December), the education secretary Gillian Keegan confirmed that the bill, which included measures to help all schools join multi-academy trusts, ‘will not progress’ to its reading in the House of Lords.
However, she told the education select committee that the Department for Education ‘remains committed to the objectives’ that underpinned the Schools Bill.
In her first appearance in front of the committee since she was made education secretary, Keegan said the Government will look to introduce many of the academy plans without new legislation, as well as prioritise plans for a register of children who are not in school.
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