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  Education Bill - Annual Parents' Meetings
  
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  <p>The majority Content voters passed an amendment<a href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> to the <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2002/ukpga_20020032_en_1">Education Bill</a>. The vote was on whether subsection (2) of a clause entitled <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2002/ukpga_20020032_en_4#pt3-ch1-l1g33">'Annual Parents' Meetings'</a> should be removed. This subsection described how schools should conduct these types of meetings as follows:</p>
  
  <blockquote>(2) The purpose of the meeting is to provide an opportunity for discussion of the manner in which the school has been, and is to be, conducted, and of any other matters relating to the school raised by parents of registered pupils.</blockquote> 
  
  However, even though this subsection was removed in this vote it still ended up becoming law when the Education Act 2002 received <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/passage_bill/lrds_royal_assent.htm">Royal Assent</a> on 24th July 2002.
  
  
  <i><ul><li><p id="footnote-1">[1] <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?gid=2002-05-14a.148.3">Baroness Blatch</a>, House of Lords, 14 May 2002</p></li>
  
  
  
  
  
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