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  Education Bill - Appeals pursuant to decisions of the adjudicator - rejected
  
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  <p>The majority Not-Contents rejected an amendment to the <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2002/ukpga_20020032_en_1">Education Bill</a>. The amendment would have inserted a new subsection (5) into <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980031_en_4#pt2-ch1-pb2-l1g25">section 25 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998</a>. This text would have read as follows:</p>
  
  <blockquote>"(5) The Secretary of State shall make arrangements for a body to hear appeals pursuant to decisions of the adjudicator."<a href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a></blockquote>
  
  <p>As Baroness Ashton of Upholland explains in the debate adjudicators determine "school organisation plans and proposals where there is no unanimity on the school organisation committee."<a href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a></p>
  
  <p>Baroness Blatch of the Conservatives argues "parents, school communities and schools themselves are in no position to counter the adjudicators' absolute power."<a href="#footnote-3"><sup>[3]</sup></a></p>
  
  <i><ul><li><p id="footnote-1">[1] <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?gid=2002-05-23a.900.0">Baroness Blatch,</a> House of Lords, 23 May 2002</li></p>
  
  <li><p id="footnote-2">[2]<a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?gid=2002-05-23a.902.1">Baroness Ashton of Upholland,</a> House of Lords, 23 May 2002</li></p>
  
  <li><p id="footnote-3">[3]<a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?gid=2002-05-23a.900.1">Baroness Blatch,</a> House of Lords, 23 May 2002</li></p></ul></i>
  
  
  
  
  
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