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  Education Bill - Independent Appeals Panels - rejected
  
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  <p>The majority Not-Contents defeated an <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?gid=2005-02-24a.1364.0">amendment to the Education Bill</a>. The amendment would have abolished independent appeals panels which allowed parents to appeal against the exclusion of their child from a school.</p>
  
  <p>The amendment would have introduced a new clause into the Bill which, in turn repeals subsections (3)(c), (4)(a), (6) and (7) of <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2002/ukpga_20020032_en_6#pt3-ch3-pb2-l1g52">section 52 of the Education Act 2002</a>. Wording of these subsections is as follows:</p>
  
  <blockquote><p>(3) Regulations shall make provisionâ</p>
  <p>(c) requiring the local education authority to make arrangements for enabling a prescribed person to appeal, in any prescribed case, to a panel constituted in accordance with the regulations against any decision of the responsible body not to reinstate a pupil,</p>
  <p>(4) Regulations under this section may also make provisionâ</p>
  <p>(a) for the payment by the local education authority of allowances to members of a panel constituted in accordance with the regulations,</p>
  <p>(6) Regulations made by virtue of subsection (4)(a) may provide for any of the provisions of <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1972/cukpga_19720070_en_25#pt9-pb3-l1g182">sections 173 to 174 of the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) (allowances to members of local authorities and other bodies)</a> to apply with prescribed modifications in relation to members of a panel constituted in accordance with regulations under this section. </p>
  <p>(7) Regulations shall make provision enabling a prescribed person, in any prescribed case, to appeal to a panel constituted in accordance with the regulations against any decision made after 31st August 1994 under paragraph 7 of <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1996/ukpga_19960056_en_37#sch1">Schedule 1 to the Education Act 1996 (c. 56)</a>, or any enactment repealed by that Act, in relation to the permanent exclusion of a pupil from a pupil referral unit; and the provision that may be made by regulations made by virtue of this subsection in relation to any such decision includes any provision that could after the commencement of subsections (2) to (4) be made in relation to a decision falling within subsection (3)(c).</p></blockquote>    
  
  
  
  
  
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