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  Education Bill - Schools Forums - rejected
  
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  <p>The majority Not-Content voters 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 only allowed schools forums to be set up if a majority of governing bodies of state schools in an area voted for one.</p>
  
  <p>The amendment would have inserted the following text (highlighted in bold):</p>
  
  <blockquote>"Every local education authority shall <b>if requested by a majority of governing bodies of maintained schools in their area</b> in accordance with regulations establish for their area before such date as may be prescribed a body, to be known as a schools forum, representing the governing bodies and head teachers of schools maintained by the authority and, if the authority so determine, also representing such bodies as the authority may from time to time in accordance with regulations determine".</blockquote>
  
  
  
  
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