The Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) Order 2015

Amendment to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014

2.  In the Schedule to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014(1), insert the entry set out in the following table in the appropriate columns, after the entry for Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills—

First Column Persons and descriptions of people	Second Column Description of matters
Secretary of State for Education.	Matters relating to the following educational institutions in England—
	(a) a maintained school (as defined in section 20(7) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(2));
	(b) a maintained nursery school (as defined in section 22(9) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(3));
	(c) an independent educational institution (as defined in section 92(1) of the Education and Skills Act 2008(4)(5)) entered on a register of independent educational institutions kept under section 95 of the Education and Skills Act 2008;
	(d) a school approved under section 342 of the Education Act 1996(6) (non-maintained special schools);
	(e) a pupil referral unit (as defined in section 19(2B) of the Education Act 1996(7));
	(f) an alternative provision Academy (as defined in section 1C(3) of the Academies Act 2010(8));
	(g) a 16-19 Academy (as defined in section 1B(3) of the Academies Act 2010(9));
	(h) a sixth form college (as defined in section 91(3A) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992(10));
	(i) a special post-16 institution (as defined in section 83(2) of the Children and Families Act 2014).

(1)

S.I. 2014/2418, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

(2)

1998 c. 31.

(3)

Section 22(9) was amended by Schedule 2, paragraphs 10(1) and (2) of Part 1, S.I. 2010/1158.

(4)

2008 c. 25.

(5)

An Academy school is an independent school (section 1A of the Academies Act 2010 as inserted by section 53(7) of the Academies Act 2011 (c. 21)).

(6)

1996 c. 56. Section 342 was substituted by Schedule 30, paragraph 82 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. Section 342(1) was amended by section 142(2), (3)(a), (3)(b) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Education and Skills Act 2008 and by Schedule 3, paragraphs 1 and 37 of Part 1 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6). Section 342(5) was amended by section 142(2), (4) of the Education and Skills Act 2008. Section 342(5A) and (5B) was inserted by section 143(1), (2) of the Education and Skills Act 2008. There is an amendment to section 342(6) that is not relevant for this Order.

(7)

Section 19(2B) was inserted by regulation 2 of S.I. 2007/1507 and was amended by Schedule 2, paragraph 7(1), (2) of Part 1of S.I. 2010/1158.

(8)

2010 c. 32. Section 1C was inserted by section 53(7) of the Education Act 2011 (c. 21).

(9)

Section 1B was inserted by section 53(7) of the Education Act 2011.

(10)

1992 c. 13. Section 91(3A) was inserted by Schedule 8, paragraphs 1, 13(1), (3) of the Apprenticeship, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22).