The Disability Discrimination (Prescribed Periods for Accessibility Strategies and Plans for Schools) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which are made under section 28D of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, prescribe that:

• local education authorities are required to prepare accessibility strategies every three years;

• responsible bodies for schools are required to prepare accessibility plans every three years;

• the periods of the accessibility strategies and accessibility plans are to be three years commencing on 1st April and ending on 31st March and the first such strategy and the first such plan is to begin on 1st April 2004 and end on 31st March 2007; and

• where a school is established after 1st April 2004, the prescribed period for that school’s first accessibility plan is to commence on the date the school is established and is to end on the date the current plan for the school would have come to an end had the school been established on or before 1st April 2004.