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  Academies Bill - Require Academies to Comply with the School Admissions Code â rejected
  
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  The majority of MPs voted against requiring Academy Schools to follow the School Admissions Code. 
  
  The School Admissions Code[1] is statutory guidance produced by the Secretary of State for Education which maintained schools have to comply with[2].
  
  
  The text of the defeated amendment was:
  
  :page 2, line 8, at end insert-
  :(e) the school must comply with the provisions of the Code for School Admissions issued from time to time by the Secretary of State.'
  
  Green Party MP Caroline Lucas and Labour backbencher Ian Mearns MP had tabled amendments to the same end but the one voted on was proposed by the Labour opposition education team led by Ed Balls MP.[3] 
  
  
  *  [1] [http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/sacode/downloads/3986-admissions-code-feb10.doc February 2010 version of the School Admissions Code] (.doc file)
  *  [2] [http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/sacode/ Department Children Schools and Families webpage on the School Admissions Code] (DCSF has been renamed the Department for Education)
  *  [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/057/amend/pbc0572107m.75-81.html Amendments sheet] (Amendment voted on is no.23)
  *  [4] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/057/11057.i-i.html Academies Bill as of 14th July 2010]
  
  
  
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