Consultation Documents (Hansard, 13 April 1994)

§ Mr. Boswell

[holding answer 31 March 1994]The information is as follows. The list includes only those documents that have gone out to a substantial number of recipients as part of a formal consultation exercise. It does not include consultation documents issued by non-departmental public bodies on matters which fall within their responsibility.

Schools Organisation:

Circular 6/93 (Admissions to Maintained Schools);
leaflet—"Your Child's Next School—A Guide to Secondary Admissions";
1994 version of Code of Practice on Appeals for grant-maintained schools;
The Education (Lay Members of Appeal Committees) Regulations 1994;
draft Circular letter on the implementation of Section 260 of the Education Act 1993.

School Performance, Inspection:

Education (Registered Inspectors of Schools Appeal Tribunal) Regulations;
contents of prospectuses as set out in the Education (School Information) Regulations 1993;
Circular 4/93 (The Parent's Charter: Publication of Information about Secondary School Performance in 1993);
Circular 5/93 (The Parent's Charter: Publication of Information about Primary School Performance in 1993).

Schools: Special Educational Needs

draft Code of Practice on the Identification and Assessment of Special Educational Needs (including draft regulations on assessments and statements);
SEN Tribunal (Consultation Paper on draft regulations and rules of procedure);
'Pupils with Problems' (draft Circulars on 'pupil behaviour and discipline'; the education of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties; 'exclusions from school'; 'the education of children by LEAs otherwise than at school'; 'the education of sick children'; and 'the education of children being looked after by local authorities');
draft Circular on the organisation of special educational provision (including draft regulations on schools' policies on special educational needs and on provisions by LEAs of special educational needs support services);
draft Circular on the development of special schools (including draft regulations on LEA-maintained special schools, grant-maintained special schools, non-maintained special schools, and independent schools catering for children with special educational needs).

Schools funding and government

Circular 2/94—Local Management of Schools
The Education (School Financial Statements) (Prescribed Particulars etc) Regulations 1994;
The Education (Financial Delegation to Schools) (Mandatory Exceptions) Regulations 1994;
The Education (Significant Variations of Schemes for Financing Schools) Order 1993;
The Education (Publication of Schemes for Financing Schools) Regulations 1993;
The Education (Application of Financing Schemes to Special Schools) Regulations 1993;
The Education (Acquisition of Grant-maintained Status) (Transitional Functions) Regulations 1993;
Circular 18/93—Education Act 1993: Grant-Maintained Schools: Acquisition, transfer and Governance (and associated regulations);
Guidance to promoters on establishing new Self-Governing (Grant-maintained) Schools under section 49 of the Education Act 1993;
The Education (School Government) (Amendment) Regulations 1993;
The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Initial Governing Instruments) Regulations 1993;
The Education (Governors of New Grant-maintained Schools) Regulations 1994;
consultation paper on arrangements for calculating annual maintenance grant for self-governing (grant-maintained) schools;
two consultation papers on the development of a Common Funding Formula for funding self-governing (grant-maintained) schools;
The Education (School Inspection) (No. 2) Regulations 1993;
Circular 17/93: Schools Requiring Special Measures;
The Education (Schools Conducted by Education Associations) Regulations 1993;
The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Loans) Regulations 1993;
The Education (Special Schools Conducted by Education Associations) 1994;
The Education (Schools Conducted by Education Associations) (Initial Articles of Government) (Amendment) Regulations 1994.

Schools—miscellaneous

The Education Assets Board (Transfers under the Education Reform Act 1988) (Amendment) Regulations 1993;
draft Circular: School Transport;
draft Circular on local authority Education Committees;
draft guidance on Safety in Outdoor Education;
draft Circular: the Use of School Premises and the Incorporation of Governing Bodies of LEA-maintained schools;
draft Circular: Proceeds of Sale of Assets Taken into Account when Building Grant is paid to Voluntary-aided and Special Agreement Schools;
two draft Circulars on sex education;
School Attendance (Policy and Practice on the Categorisation of Absence);
draft regulations on money following the permanently excluded pupil;
draft regulations and Order on imposing time limits on exclusions procedures;
draft regulations on Pupil Referral Units.

Teachers and Teacher Training:

The Government's Proposals for the Reform of Initial Teacher Training;
draft Circular: The Initial Training of Primary School Teachers;
Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) (No. 2)
Order, with School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 1993 and draft Circular on School teachers' Pay and Conditions of Employment;
Education (Teachers) (Amendment) Regulations;
Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 1994;
Science and Maths: a consultation paper on the supply and demand of newly qualified young people;
draft Circular: the physical and mental fitness to teach of teachers and entrants to initial teacher training.

Further Education

consultation document on arrangements for publication by colleges of information about students' achievements and career routes;
draft Charter for Further Education.

Higher Education

draft Charter for Higher Education;
Proposals for the reform of student unions:
Consultation Note 1: Core Services
Consultation Note 2: Code of Practice for Campus Student Unions.

European Union

EC Commission Green Paper on the European Dimension of Education.