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  School Standards and Framework Bill - Abolition of corporal punishment in schools
  
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  The majority Aye voters introduced a new clause[1] into the [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmbills/135/1998135.htm#aofs School Standards and Framework Bill]. The clause abolishes corporal punishment in all schools and became law on 24th July 1998 when the Bill received [http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/passage_bill/lrds_royal_assent.htm Royal Assent].
  
  
  The School Standards and Framework Bill's main aims were to[2]:
  
  * Limit infant class sizes to a maximum of 30
  * Abolish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant-maintained_school grant-maintained schools]
  * Allow local communities to vote to abolish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school#Contemporary_British_grammar_schools grammar schools]
  * Establish an Admissions Code for schools and set up the [http://www.schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk/index.cfm Office of Schools Adjudicator] to enforce this code
  
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  * [1] [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1998/mar/24/abolition-of-corporal-punishment-in#column_394 Kali Mountford MP], House of Commons, 24 March 1998
  
  * [2] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Standards_and_Framework_Act_1998 Wikipedia entry], retrieved on 2010-01-30
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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