School Standards and Framework Act 1998

School Standards and Framework Act 1998
United Kingdom Parliament
Long title:	An Act to make new provision with respect to school education and the provision of nursery education otherwise than at school; to enable arrangements to be made for the provision of further education for young persons partly at schools and partly at further education institutions; to make provision with respect to the Education Assets Board; and for connected purposes.
Statute book chapter:	1998 c. 31
Introduced by:	David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education and Skills
Territorial extent:	England and Wales
Other legislation
Amendments:	Education and Inspections Act 2006, Education and Skills Act 2008
Status: Current legislation
Text of statute as originally enacted
Official text of the statute as amended and in force today within the United Kingdom, from the UK Statute Law Database
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The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 was the major education legislation passed by the incoming Labour government of Tony Blair. This Act:

• imposed a limit of 30 on infant class sizes.
• abolished grant-maintained schools, introducing foundation status.
• provided for a schedule of fully-selective state schools (grammar schools), and set up a procedure by which local communities could vote for their abolition. No grammar schools have yet been abolished using this mechanism.
• prohibited the expansion of partial selection.
• introduced an Admissions Code and the office of Schools Adjudicator to enforce this Code and consider objections to admission arrangements.

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