Education (No. 2) Act 1986 (Hansard, 16 December 1986)

§ Mr. Kenneth Baker

A commencement order has now been made to bring the following sections of the Act into effect:

(a) on 7 January 1987

17—local education authority's to state curriculum policy
30 and 31—governors annual report and parents' meeting
33—local consultations over admission arrangements 44 to 46—safeguards in the teaching of political and sexual matters
50—specific grants for teacher training etc.
51 and 52—inter-authority recoupment
53—school transport
56—reports to the Secretary of State.

(b) on 1 April 1987

54 and 55—change of status from controlled school to aided school.

A further commencement order is planned for April 1987 to bring remaining sections into effect as follows:

(a) on 15 August 1987
47 and 48—abolition of corporal punishment in the maintained sector.

(b) on 1 September 1987

12—temporary governing bodies for new schools
20—curriculum information for parents
28—local education authority's reserve power in disciplinary matters
29—financial information and delegation to schools
32—reports by governing bodies and head teachers
43—free speech in universities, polytechnics and colleges
57 and 58—information, training and allowances for governors
61—minimum age for governors in establishments of further education
62—access to governing bodies' papers

and the remaining school government provisions in Part I to III for new schools, any other schools without instruments and articles of government, and those schools for which local education authorities adopt the new arrangements in advance of the following dates for mandatory implementation of these provisions:

(i) 1 September 1988 for county and maintained special schools; and
(ii) 1 September 1989 for voluntary schools.

A circular will be issued very shortly setting out these arrangements and offering advice on the provisions being brought into effect on 7 January 1987. Further guidance will be offered in due course on the remaining provisions.