The Education (School Information) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

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"the principal regulations" means the Education (School Information) (England) Regulations 2002[3].

Amendment of the principal regulations
     3. In the principal regulations—

(a) in regulation 3(1) omit the following definitions—

"the 2000 Act";

"assess";

"associated documents";

"core subjects";

"GCE "A" level examinations" and "GCE "AS" examinations";

"GCSE";

"GNVQ";

"IT Key Skills Unit";

"national average figures";

"national summary figures";

"NC tasks";

"NC tests";

"the statutory arrangements";

"teacher assessment";

"unit";

"VCE"; and

"vocationally related qualification",

and omit the words "references to levels and attainment targets are references to, respectively, the levels of attainment of the National Curriculum level scale and attainment targets set out in the associated documents";

(b) in regulation 3 omit paragraphs (3), (5), (6) and (7);

(c) omit regulation 5;

(d) in regulation 6 omit paragraphs (3) and (4);

(e) omit regulations 11, 12 and 13;

(f) for regulation 14(1) substitute—

    " (1) The governing body of a maintained school shall publish—


(a) the report containing special needs information referred to in section 317(5) of the Education Act 1996[4], and

(b) any other general information relating to that school which they may decide to publish,



as a single document identified as the school prospectus.";

(g) for regulation 14(2) substitute—

    " (2) Copies of the school prospectus shall be made available at the school for distribution without charge to parents on request and for reference by parents and other persons.";

(h) omit Schedules 3 and 4.

Transitional Provisions
     4. —(1) Where, before the coming into force of these Regulations, the governing body of a maintained school has published a school prospectus in respect of the publication school year 2005/2006 in accordance with the principal regulations, nothing in these Regulations shall require such governing body to publish a further school prospectus in respect of that publication school year.

    (2) For the purposes of this regulation—

"the publication school year" has the same meaning as in the principal regulations.

Jacqui Smith
Minister of State Department for Education and Skills

29th July 2005

[2] )1998 c.31; by virtue of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (SI 1999/672) the powers conferred by these provisions are exercisable by the Secretary of State only in relation to England. Section 92 was amended by the Education Act 2002, section 51, Schedule 4, paragraph 7.back

[3] SI 2002/2897, as amended by the Education (Amendments to Regulations Requiring the Publication of Pupil Performance Information) (England) Regulations 2005 (SI 2005/845).back

[4] Section 317 was amended by the Education Act 2005 (c.18), section 117, Schedule 18, paragraph 2.back