Education Act 2011

<p>The Bill seeks to implement the legislative proposals in the Department for Education&rsquo;s schools White Paper, 'The Importance of Teaching' and measures from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills relating to skills and the reform of higher education funding. It is therefore a very wide-ranging Bill.</p><p><strong>Key areas</strong></p><ul><li>provides for the introduction of targeted free early years care for children under compulsory school age</li><li>makes changes to provisions on school discipline and places restrictions on the public reporting of allegations made against teachers</li><li>abolishes five quangos: the General Teaching Council for England, the Training and Development Agency for Schools, the School Support Staff Negotiating Body, the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency and the Young Person&rsquo;s Learning Agency and gives new powers to the Secretary of State as a consequence of some of these changes</li><li>removes certain duties on school governing bodies, local authorities and further education institutions, including the duty on local authorities to appoint school improvement partners</li><li>makes changes to the arrangements for setting up new schools, and amends the Academies Act 2010 to make provision for 16 to 19 academies and alternative provision academies</li><li>includes measures relating to school admissions, school meals, composition of school governing bodies, school inspection, school finance and permitted charges.</li></ul>