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School Admission Procedures, Pupil Achievement And Social Exclusion

EDM number 1859 in 2002-03, proposed by Frank Dobson on 04/11/2003.

That this House welcomes the launch of Comprehensive Future, the campaign to modernise secondary school admission procedures; welcomes the Government's revised Code of Practice on School Admissions; further welcomes the publication of the Audit Commission/Ofsted Report, The Influence of School Place Planning on School Standards and Social Inclusion; notes the criticism of current admission procedures contained both in the June 2002 report from the Council of Tribunals and in the July 2002 report issued by the Schools Adjudicator; further notes the evidence of abuse of current procedures documented in research recently published by the London School of Economics; regrets that more children in England now face overt and covert selective admission procedures to secondary school than in 1997; recognises the impracticality of the 1998 Grammar School Ballot Regulations; further regrets the denial of parental choice intrinsic to admission systems in which schools select children; is aware of the growing body of evidence linking selective systems of secondary education to lower overall levels of pupil achievement and higher levels of social exclusion; and calls on the Government (a) to request Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools to conduct an inquiry into the relationship between selective admission procedures, pupil achievement and post-16 participation rates and (b) to request the Social Exclusion Unit to conduct a parallel inquiry into the relationship between the structures of secondary education and levels of social exclusion.

This motion has been signed by a total of 82 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Frank Dobson04/11/2003Holborn & St PancrasLabourProposed
Colin Pickthall04/11/2003West LancashireLabourSigned
Derek Foster04/11/2003Bishop AucklandLabourSigned
Mark Fisher04/11/2003Stoke-on-Trent CentralLabourSigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody04/11/2003Crewe & NantwichLabourSigned
Julia Drown04/11/2003South SwindonLabourSigned
Terry Davis04/11/2003Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
Diana Organ04/11/2003Forest of DeanLabourSigned
Alan Meale04/11/2003MansfieldLabourSigned
Michael Meacher04/11/2003Oldham West & RoytonLabourSigned
Tony Lloyd04/11/2003Manchester CentralLabourSigned
Peter Kilfoyle04/11/2003Liverpool, WaltonLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins04/11/2003TamworthLabourSigned
Helen Jackson04/11/2003Sheffield, HillsboroughLabourSigned
Joan Ruddock04/11/2003Lewisham, DeptfordLabourSigned
Ernie Ross04/11/2003Dundee WestLabourSigned
Ken Purchase04/11/2003Wolverhampton North EastLabour/Co-operativeSigned
David Taylor05/11/2003North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Robert Wareing05/11/2003Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Tom Cox05/11/2003TootingLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell05/11/2003Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Martin Caton05/11/2003GowerLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd05/11/2003Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Lynne Jones05/11/2003Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin06/11/2003Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Huw Edwards06/11/2003MonmouthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington06/11/2003Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Paul Flynn06/11/2003Newport WestLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard06/11/2003WalthamstowLabourSigned
Jane Griffiths06/11/2003Reading EastLabourSigned
Win Griffiths06/11/2003BridgendLabourSigned
Patrick Hall06/11/2003BedfordLabourSigned
John Austin06/11/2003Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Harry Barnes06/11/2003North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Andrew Bennett06/11/2003Denton & ReddishLabourSigned
Joe Benton06/11/2003BootleLabourSigned
Roger Berry06/11/2003KingswoodLabourSigned
Harold Best06/11/2003Leeds North WestLabourSigned
Clive Betts06/11/2003Sheffield, AttercliffeLabourSigned
George Stevenson06/11/2003Stoke-on-Trent SouthLabourSigned
Dennis Turner06/11/2003Wolverhampton South EastLabour Co-operativeSigned
Desmond Turner06/11/2003Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Brian White06/11/2003North East Milton KeynesLabourSigned
Betty Williams06/11/2003ConwyLabourSigned
Michael Clapham06/11/2003Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Ann Cryer06/11/2003KeighleyLabourSigned
Gwyn Prosser06/11/2003DoverLabourSigned
Phil Sawford06/11/2003KetteringLabourSigned
Marsha Singh06/11/2003Bradford WestLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner06/11/2003BolsoverLabourSigned
David Heyes06/11/2003Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
David Hinchliffe06/11/2003WakefieldLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins06/11/2003Luton NorthLabourSigned
Brian Iddon06/11/2003Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Nigel Jones06/11/2003CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Piara S Khabra06/11/2003Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Andrew MacKinlay06/11/2003ThurrockLabourSigned
Alice Mahon06/11/2003HalifaxLabourSigned
Robert Marshall-Andrews06/11/2003MedwayLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara06/11/2003Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Kevin Brennan06/11/2003Cardiff WestLabourSigned
Colin Challen06/11/2003Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Harry Cohen06/11/2003Leyton & WansteadLabourSigned
Michael Connarty06/11/2003Falkirk EastLabourSigned
Janet Dean06/11/2003BurtonLabourSigned
Terry Lewis06/11/2003WorsleyLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson10/11/2003Hampstead & HighgateLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt10/11/2003Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore11/11/2003HendonLabourSigned
Hywel Francis11/11/2003AberavonLabourSigned
Helen Jones11/11/2003Warrington NorthLabourSigned
Tony Clarke12/11/2003Northampton SouthLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn12/11/2003Islington NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis12/11/2003Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Alan Simpson13/11/2003Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley13/11/2003Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Paul Holmes18/11/2003ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Doug Naysmith18/11/2003Bristol North WestLabour Co-operativeSigned
Kerry Pollard19/11/2003St AlbansLabourSigned
David Chaytor19/11/2003Bury NorthLabourSigned
Valerie Davey19/11/2003Bristol WestLabourSigned
Mike Wood19/11/2003Batley & SpenLabourSigned

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