Education Act 2011

Pupil referral units

50 Financing of pupil referral units

(1) Section 45 of SSFA 1998 (financing of maintained schools: maintained schools to have budget shares) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1A), omit “or” at the end of paragraph (b), and after paragraph (c) insert “, or

(d) a pupil referral unit in England.”

(3) In subsection (3)—

(a) in paragraph (a), after “pupil referral units” insert “in Wales”;

(b) after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa) references to the governing body of a maintained school or of a school maintained by a local authority shall be read, in relation to a pupil referral unit in England, as references to the management committee for the unit (in spite of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Education Act 1996);

(ab) references to governors shall be read, in relation to a pupil referral unit in England, as references to the members of the management committee for the unit;”.

51 Repeal of provision changing name of pupil referral units

(1) ASCLA 2009 is amended as set out in subsections (2) and (3).

(2) In section 249 (short stay schools: miscellaneous)—

(a) omit subsections (1) and (2) (change of name from pupil referral unit to short stay school);

(b) for the heading, substitute “Regulations about pupil referral units”.

(3) For the italic cross-heading above section 249, substitute “Pupil referral units”.

(4) In Schedule 1 to EA 1996 (pupil referral units), in paragraph 3A—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for “short stay school” substitute “pupil referral unit”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (b), for “short stay schools”, in both places where it occurs, substitute “pupil referral units”.