division_name: Education Bill
motion: <p pid="a.1482.2/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 129:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.1482.2/2" pwmotiontext="moved">After Clause 195, insert the following new clause&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1482.2/3" pwmotiontext="moved">"DRUGS AND ALCOHOL POLICIES</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1482.2/4" pwmotiontext="moved">(1) The governors of every maintained school shall determine the drugs and alcohol policy for that school.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1482.2/5" pwmotiontext="moved">(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 pid="a.1482.2/6" pwmotiontext="moved">(3) No appeal shall be made under subsection (2) save on procedural grounds.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1482.2/7" pwmotiontext="moved">(4) On such an appeal, the governing body may&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1482.2/8" pwmotiontext="moved">(a) confirm the head teacher's action,</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1482.2/9" pwmotiontext="moved">(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 pid="a.1482.2/10" pwmotiontext="moved">(c) direct the head teacher to take such other action as they consider appropriate in the circumstances.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1482.2/11" pwmotiontext="moved">(5) The head teacher shall comply with any directions of the governing body given under subsection (4)(b) or (c).</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1482.2/12" pwmotiontext="moved">(6) The governing body shall notify the appellant and the head teacher in writing of their decision on such an appeal."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1484.1/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 129) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1484.1/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 3; Not-Contents, 30.</p>