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NOTICES OF AMENDMENTSgiven up to and includingFriday 1st February 2002New Amendments handed in are marked thus * CONSIDERATION OF BILLNOTEThe Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order to be proposed by Secretary Estelle Morris.Secretary Estelle Morris To move, That the Education Bill, as amended, be considered in the following order, namely, new Clauses relating to Part 1, new Clauses relating to Part 2, new Clauses relating to Part 3, new Clauses relating to Part 4, new Clauses relating to Part 5, new Clauses relating to Part 6, new Clauses relating to Part 7, new Clauses relating to Part 8, new Clauses relating to Part 9, new Clauses relating to Part 10, other new Clauses, amendments relating to Clauses 1 to 18, Schedule 1, Clauses 19 to 35, Schedule 2, Clauses 36 to 38, Schedule 3, Clauses 39 to 48, Schedule 4, Clauses 49 to 53, Schedule 5, Clauses 54 to 56, Schedule 6, Clauses 57 to 62, Schedule 7, Clauses 63 to 66, Schedule 8, Clause 67, Clause 68, Schedule 9, Clauses 69 to 71, Schedule 10, Clauses 72 to 115, Schedule 11, Clauses 116 to 143, Schedule 12, Clauses 144 to 147, Schedule 13, Clauses 148 to 150, Schedule 14, Clauses 151 to 180, Schedule 15, Clause 181, Schedule 16, Clause 182, Schedule 17, Clauses 183 to 188, Schedule 18, Clauses 189 to 192, Schedule 19, Clauses 193 to 198, Schedule 20, Clauses 199 to 209, Schedule 21, Schedule 22, new Schedules.
NEW CLAUSES RELATING TO PART 1Power of LEA to innovate without permission of the Secretary of State
Mr Phil Willis NC5 To move the following Clause:—'(1) This section has effect notwithstanding anything in sections 1 to 4 of this Act. (2) A local education authority may resolve to implement an innovative project which in the opinion of the authority contributes to the raising of educational standards achieved by children or adults in their area. (3) Subject to subsection (4), the authority may resolve to exempt, relax or modify any innovative project from any requirement imposed by education legislation on the authority. (4) The Secretary of State shall by order designate any requirement imposed by education legislation on a local education authority as not subject to exemption, relaxation or modification by the authority.'.
Power of school to innovate without permission of the Secretary of State (No. 2)
Mr Phil Willis NC6 To move the following Clause:—'(1) This section has effect notwithstanding anything in sections 1 to 4 of this Act. (2) A maintained school governing body may resolve to implement an innovative project which in the opinion of the governing body contributes to the raising of educational standards achieved by registered pupils at the school. (3) Subject to subsection (4), the governing body may resolve to exempt, relax or modify any innovative project from any requirement imposed by education legislation on the governing body. (4) The Secretary of State shall by order designate any requirement imposed by education legislation on a school governing body as not subject to exemption, relaxation or modification by the governing body.'.
Automatic exemptions from curriculum and pay and conditions provisions
Mr Damian Green NC10 To move the following Clause:—'(1) Regulations shall designate curriculum or pay and conditions provisions as attracting exemptions for all maintained schools, subject to subsection (2) below. (2) Regulations may prescribe circumstances in which a school or category of schools will not benefit from automatic exemption under subsection (1), in which case section 6 shall apply.'.
NEW CLAUSES RELATING TO PART 3No requirements of attendance at a place of religious worship
Mr Frank Dobson
NC1 To move the following Clause:—'(1) It shall not be required, as a condition of a pupil being admitted to a maintained school, that:
(3) Where the local education authority is informed that there are insufficient applications to a particular maintained school to fill the available places, the local education authority may after consultation with the admission forum authorise an increase up to 100 per cent. in the numbers of pupils admitted who are of the particular faith or denomination of the maintained school in question.'.
Employment etc. of teachers: religious issues
Mr Phil Willis NC2 To move the following Clause:—'(1) The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 59) is amended as follows. (2) Section 58 (Appointment and dismissal of certain teachers at schools with a religious character) shall cease to have effect. (3) Section 59 (Staff at community, secular foundation or voluntary, or special school) is amended by leaving out subsection (1) and inserting—
Modification of employment law
Mr Phil Willis NC3 To move the following Clause:—'(1) In section 81 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 as amended by Schedule 21 to this Act there is added at the end of sub-section (1) "or as he considers necessary to ensure that persons employed to work in schools to whom those provisions apply have the benefit of the rights conferred by school enactments as if the governing bodies of those schools were their employers." (2) In Paragraph 3 of the Education (Modification of Enactments Relating to Employment) Order 1999 S.I. 1999/2256. There is added
Selection by aptitude
Mr Phil Willis NC4 To move the following Clause:—'(1) The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 59) is amended as follows. (2) Clause 99 (General restriction on selection by ability or aptitude) is amended by leaving out subsection (4)(b). (3) Clause 102 (Permitted Selection: aptitude for particular subjects.) shall cease to have effect.'.
Designation of Specialist Colleges
Mr Phil Willis NC7 To move the following Clause:—'(1) A maintained secondary school is a specialist college if it is designated by order of the Secretary of State as having one or more of the following specialisms:
(3) The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (1) by adding additional specialisms.' (4) The Governing Body of a maintained school may apply to the Secretary of State to amend by order (1) to add a specialism.'.
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