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  Education Bill - Drugs and Alcohol Policies - 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 introduced a new clause into the Bill enabling schools to set their own drugs and alcohol policy. The amendment reads as follows:</p>
  
  <blockquote><p>    After Clause 195, insert the following new clause-</p>
  
  <p>"DRUGS AND ALCOHOL POLICIES</p>
  
  <p>(1) The governors of every maintained school shall determine the drugs and alcohol policy for that school.</p>
  
  <p>(2) A school's drugs and alcohol policy shall provide that where a head teacher takes disciplinary action against a pupil under the terms of the school's drugs and alcohol policy, the parent of the pupil concerned may appeal to that school's governing body.</p>
  
  <p>(3) No appeal shall be made under subsection (2) save on procedural grounds.</p>
  
  <p>(4) On such an appeal, the governing body may-</p>
  
  <p>(a) confirm the head teacher's action,</p>
  
  <p>(b) in the event of a procedural error on the part of the head teacher, invite the disciplinary case to be heard again, or</p>
  
  <p>(c) direct the head teacher to take such other action as they consider appropriate in the circumstances.</p>
  
  <p>(5) The head teacher shall comply with any directions of the governing body given under subsection (4)(b) or (c).</p>
  
  <p>(6) The governing body shall notify the appellant and the head teacher in writing of their decision on such an appeal."<a href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> </p></blockquote>
  
  <i><ul><li><p id="footnote-1">[1] <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?gid=2002-06-26a.1482.2">Baroness Blatch,</a> House of Lords, 26 June 2002</i></ul></li></p>
  
  
  
  
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