PART 6

SUPPLEMENTARY

Mental health and emotional well-being

Duty to have regard to mental health and emotional well-being of children and young persons
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1
A person within subsection (2) must, in exercising any function conferred by or under this Act, have regard to the mental health and emotional well-being of children and young persons likely to be affected by the exercise of the function.
2
The persons are—
a
the head teacher of a maintained school or a maintained nursery school;
b
the governing body of a maintained school or a maintained nursery school;
c
a provider of funded non-maintained nursery education;
d
the teacher in charge of a pupil referral unit;
e
the management committee for a pupil referral unit;
f
a person who provides teaching and learning for a child otherwise than at a maintained school, maintained nursery school or pupil referral unit by virtue of arrangements made under section 19A of the Education Act 1996 (c. 56);
g
a local authority in Wales.