Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 3328

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Withernsea and Southern Holderness Rural Achievement Education Action Zone (Amendment) Order 2000

Made

16th December 2000

Laid before Parliament

20th December 2000

Coming into force

15th January 2001

Whereas an application for the purpose of amending the Withernsea and Southern Holderness Rural Achievement Education Action Zone Order 1999 has been made to the Secretary of State with the consent of the governing bodies of every participating school in the Zone:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 10(1) and 11 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(1), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Withernsea and Southern Holderness Rural Achievement Education Action Zone (Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 15th January 2001.

Amendment of the Withernsea and Southern Holderness Rural Achievement Education Action Zone Order 1999

2.-(1) The Withernsea and Southern Holderness Rural Achievement Education Action Zone Order 1999(2) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) of this article.

(2) For article 5 there shall be substituted the following article-

"5. The Forum may at any time appoint additional members as follows-

(a)up to three persons who appear to the Forum to represent the interests of business;

(b)up to three persons who appear to the Forum to represent the interests of the community in the area served by the zone schools;

(c)one person nominated by the Education Joint Consultative Committee of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, or by any successor body;

(d)one person who appears to the Forum to represent the interests of support staff in the zone schools; and

(e)up to four persons who appear to the Forum to represent the interests of teachers or organisations of teachers or both."

(3) There shall be inserted after article 9 the following article-

"Removal from office by Forum

9A. A member of the Forum may be removed from office by the Forum in the following circumstances-

(a)in the case of a member who was a governor of a zone school at the time he was appointed to the Forum pursuant to paragraph (a) of article 4, if that person ceases to be a governor at that zone school;

(b)in the case of any member appointed either pursuant to paragraph (a) of article 4 or, in the case of the Hedon Nursery school, paragraph (c), if any of the schools referred to in those paragraphs are discontinued;

(c)in the case of a member appointed pursuant to paragraph (c) of article 4 (save for the member appointed by the headteacher of Hedon Nursery school), or paragraph (c) of article 5, if the body in question is dissolved or otherwise ceases to exist; and

(d)in the case of a member appointed pursuant to paragraphs (a), (b), (d) or (e) of Article 5, if that person no longer appears to the Forum to represent the interests of either business, the community in the area served by the zone schools, the support staff in the zone schools, or teachers or organisation of teachers, as the case may be."

Estelle Morris

Minister of State,

Department for Education and Employment

16th December 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Withernsea and Southern Holderness Rural Achievement Education Action Zone Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3400).

It amends article 5 of that order which provides for additional members to be appointed to the Education Action Forum for the zone. The Forum may now appoint an extra person representing the local community interests, and may also appoint a representative of the Local Education Authority's Joint Consultative Committee, a representative of the zone's schools' support staff and up to four representatives of teachers or of organisations representing teachers. It also provides for curcumstances in which members of the Forum may be removed from office.

(1)

1998 c. 31.

(2)

S.I. 1999/3400.