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  Education Bill - No requirements of attendance at a place of religious worship - rejected
  
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  <p>The majority No voters rejected a new clause<a href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> to the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmbills/087/2002087.htm">Education Bill</a>. This would have required religious state schools to accept a minimum of 25% of non-religious applicants. It also states that pupils admitted to state schools, and their parents and guardians, do not have to attend a place of worship or belong to a particular faith. However, the amendment was defeated.</p>
  
  
  <p>The main aims of the Education Bill were to<a href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a>:</p>
  
  <ul><li>Allow schools to exempt themselves from laws which prevented them from innovating. However, this is dependent on the Secretary of State's approval.</li>
  <li>Give good schools the option of qualifying for greater flexibility in the National Curriculum and teachers' pay.</li>
  <li>Allow schools to join together in a federation under a single governing body.</li>
  <li>Further regulate school admissions, exclusions and attendance policies.</li>
  <li>Give the Secretary of State further powers to intervene in failing schools.</li>
  <li>Introduce a new regulatory regime for independent schools.</li></ul>
  
  
  
  <i><ul><li><p id="footnote-1">[1] <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2002-02-06.867.3">Frank Dobson MP,</a> House of Commons, 6 February 2002</p></li>
  
  <li><p id="footnote-2">[2] <a href="http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/educationoverview/educationact/summary/">TeacherNet Summary</a>, 17 September 2002</p></li></ul></i>
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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