And the other bills too...
The Childrens Schools and Family's bill has also entered the "wash-up". This too contains a lot of contentious things in it and should be dropped along with this Mandybill and the Justice Bill.
At least the home ed part is illicit in so many ways including legislation being based on a review (with illegitimate terms of reference) with stats that are not being put on the DCSF statistics database so the National Statistics Office have no way of giving opinion on them as they are not being asked to make them official. Therefore MPs should not have been given in a form they were led to believe were official, legislation should not be based on them because to form policy they must be qualified. But it is not the only controversial section of the Bill and it would be better if the whole thing were scrapped as the shoddy and irredeemable piece of work it is.
Watching the bills pass through Parliament (yes I did watch!) - there was not enough time given to discuss pertinent points. They have ended up here in the wash up instead. Not really democracy in action...
Here's hoping that these bills ends up dropped.