HC Deb 27 November 1974 vol 882 cc454-5

Mr. William Shelton, supported by Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas, Sir John Eden, Sir George Sinclair, Miss Janet Fookes, Dr. Keith Hampson, and Dr Rhodes Boyson, presented a Bill to amend section 76 of the Education Act 1944 in order to impose clearer obligations on local education authorities to take account of parental wishes in regard to the education of their children; to provide by order for the establishment of independent appeal bodies for parents aggrieved by the decision of local education authorities in connection with the choice of school for their children; to give parents and teachers additional rights to be represented on school boards of governors and managers; to enable an obligation to be placed on all maintained schools to form parent-teachers' associations; and to make other provisions for the strengthening of parental rights and influence in education: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday, 25th April and to be printed [Bill 27].