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  School Standards and Framework Bill - Abolition of corporal punishment in schools
  
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  <p>The majority Aye voters introduced a new clause<a href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> into the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmbills/135/1998135.htm#aofs">School Standards and Framework Bill</a>. The clause abolishes corporal punishment in all schools and became law on 24th July 1998 when the Bill received <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/passage_bill/lrds_royal_assent.htm">Royal Assent</a>.
  
  
  <p>The School Standards and Framework Bill's main aims were to:</p>
  
  <ul type="square"><li>Limit infant class sizes to a maximum of 30</li>
  <li>Abolish grant-maintained schools</li>
  <li>Allow local communities to vote to abolish <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school#Contemporary_British_grammar_schools">grammar schools</a></li>
  <li>Establish an Admissions Code for schools and set up the <a href="http://www.schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk/index.cfm">Office of Schools Adjudicator</a> to enforce this code</li></ul>
  
  
  <i><ul><li><p id="footnote-1">[1] <a href="http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1998/mar/24/abolition-of-corporal-punishment-in#column_394">Kali Mountford MP,</a> House of Commons, 24 March 1998</i></ul></p>
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
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