School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013

3 Warning notice

(1) If a local authority is satisfied that one or more of grounds 1 to 6 exist in relation to one of its maintained schools, the authority may give a warning notice to the governing body of the school.

(2) The local authority must specify each of the following in the warning notice—

(a) the grounds for intervention;

(b) the reasons why the authority is satisfied that the grounds exist;

(c) the action the authority requires the governing body to take in order to deal with the grounds for intervention;

(d) the period within which the action is to be taken by the governing body (“the compliance period”);

(e) the action the authority is minded to take if the governing body fails to take the required action.

(3) If the local authority gives a warning notice to the governing body of a school, it must at the same time give a copy of the warning notice to—

(a) the head teacher;

(b) if the school is a foundation or voluntary school—

(i) the person who appoints the foundation governors, and

(ii) if the school has a religious character, the appropriate religious body;

(c) the Welsh Ministers.