The Education (Special Educational Needs) (Approval of Independent Schools) Regulations 1994

Prospectus

12.—(1) The school shall publish in advance of each school year a prospectus giving information about the school and the school year and any significant changes likely to take place in the year in question.

(2) The prospectus shall include the following information—

(a) The name, address and telephone number of the school and its proprietor, and the names of the head teacher and of the head of care;

(b) particulars of the arrangements as respects children for whom provision is made by the school categorised by reference to—

(i) the number, age and sex of day children and of boarders, respectively, and

(ii) the range and severity of their respective special educational needs,

and particulars of the special educational provision made for those children and the availability of resources for that provision, including the use of any specialist support services;

(c) particulars relating to the school curriculum including, in particular—

(i) the organisation of education at the school, especially in respect of the teaching of children of different ages and abilities together or in separate groups (either generally or in particular subjects) and any requirements as respects homework;

(ii) any arrangements made in respect of the National Curriculum and the subject choices, if any, available (including the arrangements for the making of such choices by parents and children);

(iii) the education offered in subjects not comprised in the National Curriculum and any arrangements for access to specialist teaching aids and new technologies;

(iv) the manner and context in which education as respects personal, social, health and sexual matters is given, and its content;

(v) the careers education and advice provided for those children who are senior pupils;

(vi) a list of any external qualifications for which courses of study are provided, and the names of the syllabuses associated with such qualifications, and the arrangements for the inspection of such syllabuses at the school;

(vii) courses of study which do not lead to external qualifications;

(d) without prejudice to sub-paragraph (c), particulars of any special curricular and other arrangements made for particular classes or descriptions of children;

(e) (i) the affiliation, if any, of the school with a particular religion or religious denomination, and

(ii) without prejudice to sub-paragraph (c), particulars of the religious education provided at the school and of any arrangements for the parent of a child to express a wish that the child be withdrawn from attendance at collective worship or religious education as mentioned in paragraph 8 of Schedule 1;

(f) particulars of the arrangements for pastoral care,

(g) particulars of the general arrangements as to school discipline including, especially, the practice of the school as respects corporal punishment where permitted by law and the arrangements for bringing to the attention of children and parents school rules made in respect of such punishment;

(h) where there are arrangements for parents of children at the school, or for parents considering sending their children to the school, to visit it, particulars of those arrangements;

(i) particulars of the main societies and activities open, and the facilities available, to children at the school or in the local community otherwise than as part of the education provided at the school;

(j) particulars of the tuition and other fees payment of which is a condition of attendance at the school, including boarding fees in the case of a school which is also a boarding school;

(k) a summary of the manner in which any complaints about the school may be made;

(l) information as to whether advice as to fire safety has been requested and acted upon;

(m) particulars of the arrangements for liaison between parents and the school;

(n) particulars of the arrangements for parental access to school records relating to a child; and

(o) particulars of the arrangements for the involvement of parents in the assessment of their child’s special educational needs and in any review of such assessment.

(3) The school shall furnish a copy of the prospectus to any local education authority or, as the case may be, local authority who have arranged the placing of a child at the school and any parents of a child with a statement in respect of whom arrangements have been made, or are proposed to be made, for his education at that school; and shall, if so requested, furnish a copy of the prospectus to the Secretary of State and the parents of any other child.