Speeches by Vince.

“I thank the Minister and the shadow Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Faversham and Mid Kent (Helen Whately), for opening this debate. I was not expecting it to be quite so lively, so I will try to add a bit of animation to what was initially going to be quite a dry speech from me. [Interruption.] That is hard to…”

“Do you have any examples? You talked about mistakes. Do you have any particular examples?”

“I declare an interest that I am an officer of the same APPG as Peter. Also, I was once a member of the NEU.”

“You would still want to reduce the need of it.”

“You say, “Let’s have a clean slate” and Anna talked about that need for a culture change, but there is a reality that there will always still be mistakes. That is reality, so there does still need to be some sort of mechanism. What would you like to see there?”

“I admire your ambition for that.”

“A lot of the evidence that we have received says there was basic consensus that SEND tribunals should only ever be used as a last resort. The Department said they expect the vast majority of disagreements to be resolved. We spoke to the representative of the local authority. Once we teased it out from her, the implicat…”

“Some of you have touched upon this already. The Government propose inclusion bases that will offer specialist support in mainstream schools and colleges. That is broken into two types, which are support bases run by schools and trusts, and specialist bases run by local authorities. This is specifically to Daniel and Ma…”

“You would still want to reduce the need of it.”

“You say, “Let’s have a clean slate” and Anna talked about that need for a culture change, but there is a reality that there will always still be mistakes. That is reality, so there does still need to be some sort of mechanism. What would you like to see there?”

“I admire your ambition for that.”

“A lot of the evidence that we have received says there was basic consensus that SEND tribunals should only ever be used as a last resort. The Department said they expect the vast majority of disagreements to be resolved. We spoke to the representative of the local authority. Once we teased it out from her, the implicat…”

“Do you have any examples? You talked about mistakes. Do you have any particular examples?”

“I have seen some really good examples of that in my constituency of Harlow, but I recognise the challenges that they are facing. To go on to look at specialist bases, I am looking at Amanda on this. It is basically the same question. How do you see these specialist bases, so those that are specifically run by local aut…”

“On your application, you said you were happy to have the debate in Westminster Hall or the Chamber. You only have eight people down on your list. You have not included yourself, so I presume it would be nine. If you wanted to have it in the main Chamber, you would need more names. Are you happy with just having a Westm…”

“Some of you have touched upon this already. The Government propose inclusion bases that will offer specialist support in mainstream schools and colleges. That is broken into two types, which are support bases run by schools and trusts, and specialist bases run by local authorities. This is specifically to Daniel and Ma…”

“I have seen some really good examples of that in my constituency of Harlow, but I recognise the challenges that they are facing. To go on to look at specialist bases, I am looking at Amanda on this. It is basically the same question. How do you see these specialist bases, so those that are specifically run by local aut…”

“I declare an interest that I am an officer of the same APPG as Peter. Also, I was once a member of the NEU.”

“On that point, will the shadow Minister give way?”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way and for bringing this really important debate to the Chamber. I recognise his passion for supporting young people with SEND, but I disagree with his views on the Government’s White Paper. I say that not because I am sitting on this side of the Chamber, but as a former teacher w…”