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Anti-Academies Alliance

EDM number 894 in 2007-08, proposed by Ken Purchase on 05/02/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Religion and faith communities and Schools.

That this House congratulates the Anti-Academies Alliance on publishing its report of the parliamentary inquiry into school academies informed by the evidence of professionals and others working in academies, community campaigners, trade unions and educationalists, all concerned that the take-over of schools by outside commercial interests and religious orders is contrary to good equal opportunity practice in education, is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act and is publishing insufficient detail on academy results, is creating unfair funding between schools, is operating admission and exclusion policies which skew intakes, is denying the protection of general education law to academy pupils and parents, is undermining local democracy and community solidarity, that the governance arrangements allow sponsors to appoint the majority of governors in perpetuity who are rarely representative of the school community, that the staff terms and conditions are leading to higher turnover rates and discriminatory employment practices and that the sponsor has almost absolute power once a school becomes an academy; and calls on the Government to take full account of the findings of the inquiry and to make urgent moves to implement them.

This motion has been signed by a total of 34 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ken Purchase05/02/2008Wolverhampton North EastLabourProposed
Ian Gibson05/02/2008Norwich NorthLabourSeconded
Evan Harris05/02/2008Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins05/02/2008Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Ronnie Campbell05/02/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSeconded
David Heyes05/02/2008Ashton-under-LyneLabourSeconded
Bob Russell05/02/2008ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham05/02/2008Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Frank Dobson05/02/2008Holborn and St PancrasLabourSigned
Mark Fisher05/02/2008Stoke-on-Trent CentralLabourSigned
David Taylor05/02/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Joan Walley05/02/2008Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Hywel Francis06/02/2008AberavonLabourSigned
Linda Riordan06/02/2008HalifaxLabourSigned
Robert Wareing06/02/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Rudi Vis06/02/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Ann Cryer06/02/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn06/02/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton06/02/2008GowerLabourSigned
Colin Burgon06/02/2008ElmetLabourSigned
Janet Dean06/02/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Bill Etherington07/02/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Dai Davies07/02/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Mike Hancock07/02/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew07/02/2008StroudLabourSigned
David Clelland07/02/2008Tyne BridgeLabourSigned
Lynne Jones07/02/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Gordon Prentice07/02/2008PendleLabourSigned
John McDonnell19/02/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
John Leech19/02/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Cohen22/02/2008Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Alan Simpson26/02/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley25/03/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Jon TrickettUnknownWithdrawn

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