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  Education and Adoption Bill - Reject Second Reading
  
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  @ MP voted aye against enabling the Government to intervene more swiftly in failing schools and against enabling fewer, larger, bodies to be given responsibility for adoption.
  @ MP voted no to enable the Government to intervene more swiftly in failing schools and to enable fewer, larger, bodies to be given responsibility for adoption.
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to enable the Government to intervene more swiftly in failing schools and to enable fewer, larger, bodies to be given responsibility for adoption.
  
  
  MPs were considering the Education and Adoption Bill[1].
  
  
  The motion under consideration was:
  :That the Bill be now read a Second time.
  
  The rejected amendment which was the subject of this vote was:
  
  :leave out from âThatâ to the end of the Question and add:
  
  :âthis House, while supporting the sponsor academy programme and recognising that no parent wants their child to be schooled in a failing, inadequate or coasting school, declines to give a Second Reading to the Education and Adoption Bill because it fails to set out measures for dealing with inadequate academies.â
  
  The Bill contains provisions intended to:
  * enable the Government to intervene more swiftly in failing schools.  
  * allow ministers to require local councils to have their adoption functions carried out by an adoption agency or one council acting for a number of council areas. 
  
  The purpose of the provision related to adoption is given in the explanatory notes accompanying the Bill[2] which says:
  
  :This will result in adoption functions being carried out on a larger scale by fewer individual agencies, and consequently, will result in a greater pool of approved adopters with whom to match vulnerable children.
  
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/educationandadoption.html Parliament's webpage on the Education and Adoption Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2015-2016/0004/en/16004en03.htm Explanatory notes to the Education and Adoption Bill]
  
  
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