The Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (England) Regulations 2005

PART 2 Subordinate legislation

Local Education Authority (Payment of School Expenses) Regulations 1999

12.  Regulation 2 of the Local Education Authority (Payment of School Expenses) Regulations 1999(1) applies in relation to a pupil attending a unit as it applies in relation to a child attending a community, foundation, voluntary or special school.

Education (Pupil Information) (England) Regulations 2000

13.  Subject to paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations, the Education (Pupil Information) (England) Regulations 2000(2) apply in relation to units as they apply in relation to maintained schools with the following modifications—

(a) in regulation 6, paragraph (4)(a) applies only in so far as it relates to the provision of the information described in paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 in relation to a pupil in the year in which he ceases to be of compulsory school age, and paragraphs (4)(b), (5) and (6) shall not apply,

(b) regulation 10 applies where a registered pupil at a unit becomes a registered pupil at a maintained school, whether or not he ceases to be a registered pupil at the unit, and where a registered pupil at a maintained school becomes a registered pupil at a unit, whether or not he ceases to be a registered pupil at the maintained school,

(c) in regulation 10(3) after “at the old school” there is inserted “; but where a pupil becomes registered at a school (including a pupil referral unit) (“the second school”) and remains registered at another school (including a pupil referral unit) (“the first school”), the pupil’s common transfer information shall be transferred to the head teacher of the second school no later than fifteen school days after the day on which the head teacher of the first school learned of the second registration”,

(d) in regulation 10(4) after “old school” there is inserted “or the first school”,

(e) in regulation 10(5) after “old school” there is inserted “or the first school”, and after “new school” there is inserted “or the second school”,

(f) in regulation 10(10) after “old school” where ever it appears there is inserted “or the first school”, and after “old school's” there is inserted “or the first school's”,

(g) paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 applies in relation to a pupil at a unit in the year in which he ceases to be of compulsory school age,

(h) in paragraph 5 of Schedule 1, the following are omitted —

(i) in sub-paragraph (2) the word “foundation” and the words from “together with” to the end, and

(ii) sub-paragraph (3),

(i) in paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 1 the words “not mentioned elsewhere in this Schedule” are omitted.

Education (School Information) (England) Regulations 2002

14.  Parts 1 and 3, and regulation 15 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Education (School Information) (England) Regulations 2002(3) apply in relation to units with the following modifications—

(a) in regulation 4 the words “a governing body and” and “the governing body or” are omitted,

(b) in regulation 7(2) after “special educational provision” there is inserted “or provision to which section 19 of the Education Act 1996 applies (exceptional provision of education in pupil referral units or elsewhere)”,

(c) in regulation 7(3)(a)(ii) for “or a special school” there is substituted “, a special school or a pupil referral unit”,

(d) in regulation 7(3)(b) for “or special schools” there is substituted “, special schools or pupil referral units”,

(e) in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 after “special school” there is inserted “or a pupil referral unit”,

(f) after paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 there is inserted—

“Part 3 Exceptional Provision of Education in Pupil Referral Units or Elsewhere

18.   The authority’s general arrangements and policies in respect of the provision of education to which section 19 of the Education Act 1996 applies (exceptional provision of education in pupil referral units or elsewhere).”

Education (School Inspection) (England) Regulations 2005

15.  Parts 1 and 2 of the Education (School Inspection) (England) Regulations 2005(4) apply in relation to units as they apply in relation to schools to which section 5 of the Education Act 2005 applies, with the following modifications—

(a) in regulation 4(1) paragraphs (a) to (d) are omitted; and

(b) regulation 4(1)(f) applies to units as it applies to secondary schools.

(1)

S.I. 1999/1727.

(2)

S.I. 2000/297; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2001/1212, S.I. 2002/1680 and S.I. 2003/1006.

(3)

S.I. 2002/2897, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(4)

S.I. 2005/2038.