The Education (Approval of Special Schools) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Amendment of the principal Regulations

5.  In Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations—

(a) for paragraph 5 there shall be substituted the following:

“5.— (1) Particulars of the school curriculum including, in particular—

(a) of the curricula for different age groups;

(b) of the subject choices, if any, available (including the arrangements for the making by parents and pupils of such choices);

(c) of the manner and context in which education as respects sexual matters is given; and

(d) of the careers education provided.

(2) Particulars relating to the school curriculum including, in particular—

(a) a list of the external qualifications for which courses of study are provided for pupils of compulsory school age at the school and which are for the time being approved by the Secretary of State or by a designated body under section 5 of the Act of 1988;

(b) the titles of the syllabuses associated with the qualifications referred to in sub-paragraph (a), or where criteria for determining a syllabus have been so approved, a statement to that effect;

(c) a list of the external qualifications, and the names of the syllabuses associated with them, which are offered to pupils over compulsory school age; and

(d) the arrangements for the inspection and (where applicable) the obtaining of copies of any documents which are for the time being required to be made available by or under the Education (School Curriculum and Related Information) Regulations 1989(1).”;

(b) in paragraph 11 the words “including, in particular, the practice of the school as respects corporal punishment” shall be omitted.

(1)

S.I. 1989/954, amended by S.I. 1989/1136 and 1990/1109.