1. The information specified in this Part is basic information—
(a)information relating to primary, secondary and special schools including in relation to each—
(i)the name;
(ii)the address;
(iii)the telephone number;
(iv)the website (if any);
(v)the email address;
(vi)the stages of education provided for;
(vii)the approximate roll;
(viii)the denominational status (if any); and
(ix)if a school admits pupils of one sex only, the sex admitted;
(b)a brief statement of an authority’s policy or practice in relation to their placing arrangements in schools, including any guidelines formulated by the authority in accordance with section 28B(1)(c) of the 1980 Act as respects placing in schools generally;
(c)school commencement arrangements and an authority’s policy or practice in relation to early admission to primary education and priorities for early admission;
(d)a brief statement of an authority’s policy or practice in relation to—
(i)provision of school meals;
(ii)boarding facilities;
(iii)transport facilities; and
(iv)other matters as mentioned in section 50 (education of pupils in exceptional circumstances) or 51 (transport and other facilities) of the 1980 Act particularly in respect of a pupil attending a school in consequence of a placing request where the school attended is a school other than a school proposed by the authority for that pupil(1);
(e)one or more addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses to which a pupil’s parent who considers that the pupil may have additional support needs may make enquiries;
(f)one or more addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses to which a parent who wishes to have any kind of supplementary information may make enquiries;
(g)a statement that information concerning a particular school is available at the school concerned; and
(h)one or more addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of the head office of the education department of an authority or a local office of that department,
and nothing in this Part of this Schedule applies to a nursery school or nursery class or to the stage of school education provided for in such a school or class.
Section 50 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 c.44 (“the 1980 Act”) was amended by section 2(2) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1981 c.58 (“the 1981 Act”), section 82 and Schedules 10 and 11 of the Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 c.39, section 145(2) of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 c.39, section 5(2) of the Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition (Scotland) Act 2007 asp 15 and Schedule 2 to the Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order S.I. 2010/1158. Section 51 of the 1980 Act was amended by section 2(3) of the 1981 Act, section 145(3) of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 c.39, Schedule 5 to the Education (Scotland) Act 1996 c.43, section 37(3) and schedule 3 to the Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc. Act 2000 asp 6, section 45 of the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 asp 1 and Schedule 2 to the Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions Order) S.I. 2010/1158.
