HC Deb 19 February 1991 vol 186 cc81-2W
Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science on what date the public consultation stage of the review of the Education (School Premises) Regulations 1981 will commence; what time scale has been decided for the completion of the consultation stage; and if he will list the organisations invited to take part in the public consultation.

Mr. Fallon

We expect consultation to begin within the next week. Comments will be invited by Friday 22 March. We shall be writing to the following organisations:

Local Authority Associations:

  • Association of Metropolitan Authorities
  • Association of County Councils

Local Education Authorities

Chief Education Officers—England

School Governors

National Association of Governors and Managers

GM Schools

Grant Maintained Schools Trust

City Technology Colleges

CTC Trust

Religious Bodies

  • Catholic Education Council
  • General Synod of the Church of England
  • London Board of Jewish Religious Education
  • Methodist Church Division of Education and Youth

Teachers Associations

  • National Union of Teachers
  • Secondary Heads Association
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  • Professional Association of Teachers
  • National Association of School Masters/Union of Women Teachers
  • National Association of Head Teachers
  • Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association

Special Educational Needs

  • Local Authority Social Services Departments
  • Centre for Studies of Integration in Education
  • National Council for Special Education
  • Royal National Institute for the Blind
  • Royal National Institute for the Deaf
  • The Spastics Society
  • Special Educational Needs National Advisory Council
  • National Association of Independent and Non-Maintained Special Schools

Local Authority Professional Associations

  • Society of Education Officers
  • Society of Chief Architects in Local Authorities (SCALA)
  • Association of Heads of County Property Departments
  • Society of Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
  • Society of Chief Building Surveyors

Ethnic Minority Organisations

  • Afro-Caribbean Teachers Association
  • Asian Teachers Association
  • British Association of Muslims
  • Board of Deputies of British Jews Education Office
  • Federation of Bangladeshi Associations
  • Caribbean Teachers Association
  • Greek Cypriot Teachers Association
  • National Association of Hindu Associations
  • National Muslim Education Council for U.K.
  • Sikh Education Council
  • Standing Conference of Asian Organisations U.K.
  • The Islamic Academy
  • The Council of Mosques: U.K. and Eire
  • The Islamic School Trust
  • Muslim Educational Trust
  • Muslim Educational Services
  • Muslim Education Co-ordinating Council U.K.

Other

  • The Chartered Institute of Building
  • National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations
  • Association of Community Councils in Rural England (ACRE)

Organisations maintaining non-maintained special schools

  • Royal National Institute for the Blind
  • Barnardo's
  • National Children's Home
  • The Shaftesbury Society
  • Invalid Children's Aid Nationwide
  • Order of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Essex)
  • Order of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Merseyside)
  • The English Province of the Daughters of the Cross
  • The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
  • Order of the Dominicans
  • Royal London Society for the Blind
  • Christian Service Union
  • Boys' and Girls' Welfare Society
  • The Royal Eastern Counties Schools Ltd.
  • Mind
  • Henshaw's Society for the Blind
  • The Birmingham Royal Institute for the Blind
  • The Smith Foundation
  • The Royal Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton

Other bodies

Local authority social services departments

Other organisations or individuals are of course welcome to write to the Department offering their views. The Welsh Office will, I understand, be consulting separately with organisations in Wales within the same time scale.

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