Arrangements For Presenting Information On Opting-Out, Wibsey First School, Bradford

EDM number 2209 in 1992-93, proposed by Bob Cryer on 23/06/1993.

That this House condemns the Chairman of Governors at Wibsey First School in Bradford for failing to ensure that all governors were notified of a meeting to discuss opting out, failing to ensure, as promised, that the teachers, who voted by 18 to two against, would have their views conveyed to parents, failing to comply with the 1988 Act by providing a true and accurate record of those eligible to vote when requested to do so by a parent-governor, censoring the material of the opposition group of parents and governors, and changing the date of voting so that a meeting to discuss the issue was to be held after ballot papers were issued rather than before, as had been agreed; condemns this record of cheating and chicanery which denies the proper conduct of the democratic process; and calls on the Secretary of State for Education to repudiate the actions of the Conservative Chair of Governors.

This motion has been signed by a total of 50 MPs.