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House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Friday 16 July 2010

 

Committee of the whole House


 

Academies Bill [Lords]

 

Caroline Lucas

 

1

 

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  1,  leave out paragraph (a) and insert—

 

‘(a)    

the school follows the National Curriculum;’.

 

Reversion of Academies to maintained status

 

Caroline Lucas

 

NC1

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

This section applies to any former maintained school which has been converted

 

into an Academy under section 4.

 

(2)    

The governing body must make arrangements for the holding of a ballot of

 

parents under this section if at least 10 per cent of the parents of pupils at the

 

Academy request it to do so.

 

(3)    

The purpose of a ballot under this section is to determine whether the parents of

 

pupils at the Academy want the Academy to be converted into a maintained

 

school.

 

(4)    

If the result of the ballot is in favour of conversion, the Secretary of State must—

 

(a)    

revoke the Academy order, and

 

(b)    

take such other steps as he considers necessary to convert the Academy

 

into a maintained school.’.

 

Caroline Lucas

 

2

 

Page  7,  line  35,  leave out Clause 12.

 

Caroline Lucas

 

3

 

Clause  12,  page  8,  line  5,  leave out subsection (4).


 
 

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Academies Bill [Lords] continued

 
 

Caroline Lucas

 

4

 

Clause  5,  page  4,  line  11,  leave out ‘such’ and insert—

 

‘(a)    

the local education authority,

 

(b)    

the teachers at the school,

 

(c)    

the pupils,

 

(d)    

the pupils’ parents,

 

(e)    

such persons as in their opinion represent the wider community, and

 

(f)    

such other’.

 

Caroline Lucas

 

5

 

Clause  10,  page  7,  line  14,  leave out ‘such’ and insert—

 

‘(a)    

the local education authority for the area in which the additional school

 

is (or is proposed to be) situated,

 

(b)    

the teachers at maintained schools, Academies and institutions within the

 

further education sector in that area,

 

(c)    

the pupils at any establishment falling within paragraph (b),

 

(d)    

the parents of those pupils,

 

(e)    

such persons as, in the opinion of the person undertaking the

 

consultation, represent the wider community, and

 

(f)    

such other’.

 

Caroline Lucas

 

6

 

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(9A)    

Academy arrangements must also include terms imposed for the purpose of

 

securing that the person with whom the Secretary of State has entered into

 

Academy arrangements, and persons nominated by or connected with that person,

 

hold no more than a quarter of the places on the governing body of the school.’.

 


 
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