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| Mr Martin Caton | Tony Wright | Llew Smith |
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:
| (a) | he must attend or abstain from attending a place of religious worship; |
| (b) | his parents or guardians must attend or abstain from attending a place of religious worship. |
| (c) | the pupil, his parent(s) or guardian(s) belong to any particular faith or denomination. |
(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
Mr David Laws
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—
| "(1) | This section applies to any maintained school." |
Modification of employment law
Mr Phil Willis
Mr David Laws
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
| (a) | after sub-paragraph (1)(e) |
| "(f) in the case of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 references to a relevant transfer includes transfers from one governing body to another |
| (b) | in the Schedule "Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1991.".' |
Selection by aptitude
Mr Phil Willis
Mr David Laws
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
Mr David Laws
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:
| (a) | technology |
| (b) | arts |
| (c) | sports |
| (d) | modern languages |
| (e) | engineering |
| (f) | business and enterprise |
| (g) | community |
| (h) | international |
(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.'.
Grammar schools: Access to parental ballots and information
Mr David Chaytor
Harry Cohen
Mr Kelvin Hopkins
Paul Holmes
Lynne Jones
Mrs Janet Dean
| Julia Drown | Mr Neil Gerrard |
NC8
To move the following Clause:—'(1) The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 59) is amended as follows—
(2) In section 105(2) procedure for deciding whether grammar schools should retain selective admission arrangements, paragraphs (b) and (c) are omitted.
(3) Section 106(1) (eligibility of parents to request or vote in a ballot) is amended by inserting "primary" before "schools".
(4) In section 106 subsection (2) is omitted.
(5) Section 106(3)(a) (proportion of parents required to request a ballot) is amended by leaving out "20" and inserting "5".
(6) Section 106(3) paragraph (b) is omitted.
(7) Section 107(3) (information provision by the authority or body on intentions or proposals following a successful petition) is amended by leaving out subsection (c) and inserting—
| "(c) | a statement by the authority or body on intentions or proposals for a non-selective education system which may include information on options, costs and planning assumptions in the event of such a result.".'. |
Permitted selection: aptitude for particular subjects
Mr David Chaytor
Harry Cohen
Lynne Jones
Mrs Janet Dean
Dr Rudi Viz
NC9
To move the following Clause:—'The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 is amended by omitting section 102.'.
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