Details of all the consultations CILIP has responded to in 2012
Response to the Consultation on the Draft Legal Deposit Libraries (non-Print Works) Regulations 2013
May 2012
CILIP's submission
Generally, CILIP welcomes the provisions in the draft Regulations as an important advance in securing future deposit and access to our national heritage. However, we are concerned that the terms of the Regulations should be consistent with, and from the user perspective, no less advantageous than existing copyright law.
Department for Education - School Funding Reform
May 2012
CILIP's submission
The third consultation on school funding reform in the last 12 months confirms that, from 2013, all funding for library services will be delegated to schools in the first instance, but if maintained schools collectively agree – through the Schools Forum – the service can be provided centrally by returning funding to the local authority. This doesn’t address the need to explore new business models to secure the future of the Schools Library Service, as recommended in the School Library Commission’s report, so in our brief response we’ve set out our intention to call for a remodeling exercise.
Ofsted- A good education for all
April 2012
CILIP's submission
CILIP has responded to Ofsted's proposals for amended inspection arrangements for maintained schools and academies and further education and Skills from September 2012. We argue that "a well managed school library supports both teaching and learning" and therefore "the school library should be seen as an integral part of a school’s levels of achievement and should be part of the Ofsted inspection process". We also call for "clear and evidenced links" between the courses offered by FE institutions and their library/learning resource centres before providers can be rated as having "outstanding” teaching, learning and assessment"
Culture, Media and Sport Committee Inquiry into Library Closures
January 2012
CILIP's submission
The submission sets out CILIP's views on 'comprehensive and efficient' library services, the impact library closures have on local communities, the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 and the effectiveness of the Secretary of State's powers of intervention under that Act. CILIP believes that the impact of closures and reductions in levels of service and staffing will be significant and damaging. And that the front loading of expenditure reductions creates greater risks of breaches of the Act.