Last updated 11/02/2010
School Budget Shares (Prescribed Purposes) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
SI 2010/190
09/02/2010
These Regulations, which amend the School Budget Shares (Prescribed Purposes) (England) Regulations 2002 (SI 2002/378), enable the governing bodies of maintained schools to use their school budget shares to provide staff, services, accommodation, goods and other resources and make financial contributions to a fund established either by the Children's Services Authority in whose area the school is situated or by any of the authority's relevant partners, with a view to improving the well-being of children and relevant young persons in that area, in accordance with the Children Act 2004 s.10. They also enable these governing bodies to make the same types of provision for purposes connected with the functions of the Children's Trust Board in whose area the school is situated, in accordance with the Children Act 2004 s.12C.
Children, Schools and Families Bill 2009
HC Bill 8; HC Bill 61
08/02/2010
Commons 1st Reading: 19.11.2009; 2nd Reading: 11.1.2010; Programme Motion: 11.1.2010; Money Resolution: 11.1.2010; Committee Stage: 19,21,26,28.1,2&4.2.2010; Provisional date for Remaining Stages: 23.2.2010.
A Bill to make provision about pupil and parent guarantees, home-school agreements, parental satisfaction surveys, children with disabilities or special educational needs, school and other education, governing bodies' powers and school teachers' qualifications; to make provision amending the Education Acts; to make provision about local safeguarding children boards and youth justice; and to make provision about publication of information relating to family proceedings.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Controlled Activity and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2010
SI 2010/Draft
03/02/2010
These Regulations revoke in part the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Regulated Activity, Miscellaneous Provisions and Commencement No. 5) Order 2009, and amend the Police Act 1997 and the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Prescribed Criteria and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2009. They make provision relating to controlled activity and the criteria prescribed for the purposes of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 Sch.3.
Equality Bill 2009
HC Bill 85; HC Bill 131; HC Bill 5
28/01/2010
Committee Stage: 11,13,19,25&27.1.2010; Provisional date for Committee: 9.2.2010.
A Bill to make provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others when making strategic decisions about the exercise of their functions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-economic inequalities; to reform and harmonise equality law and restate the greater part of the enactments relating to discrimination and harassment related to certain personal characteristics; to enable certain employers to be required to publish information about the differences in pay between male and female employees; to prohibit victimisation in certain circumstances; to require the exercise of certain functions to be with regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and other prohibited conduct; to enable duties to be imposed in relation to the exercise of public procurement functions; to increase equality of opportunity; and for connected purposes.
Legal Update: Children, Schools and Families Bill
Education Now
28/01/2010
Discusses the first 14 clauses of the Bill.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Regulated Activity, Devolution and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2010
SI 2010/Draft
28/01/2010
This Order amends the definition of regulated activity in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. It also makes amendments to the definitions of controlled activity in s.21 and s.22 of the Act and provides for the Independent Safeguarding Authority to be able to disclose information to police forces in Scotland and in Northern Ireland.
School Admissions Bill 2010
Private Members Bill PMB HC Bill 57
28/01/2010
Commons 1st Reading: 27.1.2010; Provisional date for 2nd Reading: 12.3.2010. A Bill to enable admission authorities to have regard for local authority boundaries and other defined localities when allocating school places; to provide for the appointment of an independent lay majority on local school admission forums; and for connected purposes.
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