The MP for Morecambe & Lunesdale has been part of a committee scruitinising a landmark education bill that could bring sweeping changes to schools.
Lizzi Collinge was part of the Bill Committee - her first since being elected - on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
The bill was introduced to Parliament in December and passed its second reading last month, and could see sweeping changes to both schools and safeguarding measures for children in the education system.
A Bill Committee takes evidence and examines legislation line-by-line.
The Government says the Bill will directly improve families’ finances and offer brighter futures for children across the country by creating a cap on the number of branded school uniform items parents have to buy, giving free breakfast clubs in all primary schools, keeping better track of children who are not in school and tackling ‘unregistered educational settings’ aka illegal schools. The Bill also brings in a new rule to ensure that all schools only employ qualified teachers.
Ms Collinge, who was elected to Parliament in July last year, said: “Sitting on this committee and being so involved in such an important piece of legislation has been an honour.
"We spent weeks scrutinising the Bill line by line, as well as listening to evidence from experts in the field.
“The Bill is a bold step towards creating a child-centred government that puts our young people first, and one that will directly improve families’ finances and offer brighter futures for children across Morecambe and Lunesdale.
"It also is a major piece of safeguarding legislation which will protect vulnerable children.
"“I especially welcome measures on illegal schools. These illegal schools have been the scene of widespread neglect and abuse across the country, including serious sexual abuse.
"New powers of entry to search illegal schools, prevention orders to stop people convicted of running an unregistered setting from running schools again, and the tracking of children not in school are all very important child protection measures.
“The Bill also helps ordinary families through provision of free breakfast clubs and the cap on branded uniforms, which is estimated to save families £500, and the Bill also provides increased safeguards for children so that we can ensure they are safe.
“I feel proud to have worked over the past weeks on this Bill and I am pleased to see it complete the committee stage."
Critics of the Bill have included Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who last month described it as an “act of vandalism” on a long-standing cross-party consensus on freedoms for England’s academies, and claimed the Bill would cut salaries for thousands of teachers and close down routes into teaching.
The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, said academies were "here to stay", and said it was a "disgrace" that Tory MPs opposed the Bill.
The Bill will now progress to its third reading in the House of Commons, before heading to the House of Lords.
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