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  Academies Bill - Permitting Special Schools to Become Academies
  
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  @ MP voted aye to allow schools for children with special needs to become academies.
  @ MP voted no against allowing schools for children with special needs to become academies.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against removing the provision in the Academies Bill[1] allowing special schools, for children with special needs, to become academies.
  
  The text of the defeated amendment[2] read:
  :Page 1, line 18, leave out from '(6)' to end of line 20.
  
  The section of the bill that amendment proposed removing described one of the types of institution permitted to become an academy it read:
  
  :, or (ii) is specially organised to make special educational provision for pupils with special educational needs;
  
  The effect of removing this subclause would have been to prevent the institutions described, generally known as special schools, from becoming academies. 
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/057/amend/pbc0572107m.75-81.html Amendments sheet] (Amendment voted on is no. 28)
  *  [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/057/11057.i-i.html Academies Bill as of 14th July 2010]
  
  
  
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