The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Home–School Agreements) (Modification) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 2834

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Home–School Agreements) (Modification) Regulations 1998

Made

12th November 1998

Laid before Parliament

18th November 1998

Coming into force

1st February 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 144(1) and 2(f) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(1), the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, as regards England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as regards Wales, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Home–School Agreements) (Modification) Regulations 1998, and shall come into force on 1st February 1999.

(2) In these Regulations “the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.

(3) A reference in these Regulations to a county, voluntary, maintained special, grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school shall be construed in accordance with the Education Act 1996(2).

Modification of section 110 of the 1998 Act

2.  Until 1st September 1999(3) section 110(1)(a) of the 1998 Act shall have effect as if the reference in that provision to a maintained school were a reference to–

(a) a county, voluntary or maintained special school, or

(b) a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school.

Charles Clarke

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Education and Employment

11th November 1998

Peter Hain

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

12th November 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 110 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 requires the governing body of every maintained school (and every city technology college and city college for the technology of the arts) to adopt a home–school agreement for the school, together with a parental declaration to be used in connection with the school.

The 1998 Act defines “maintained school” by reference to the new categories into which schools maintained by local education authorities will be divided on or after the day appointed by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 20 of the Act, namely 1st September 1999. These Regulations modify the reference in section 110(1)(a) to a maintained school so that, until that date, it will be construed as a reference to a school falling within one of the categories of maintained school provided for in the Education Act 1996.

(1)

1998 c. 31.

(2)

1996 c. 56.

(3)

1st September 1999 is the appointed day for the purposes of section 20 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998: see S.I. 1998/2083.