8.—(1) A local authority must publish the information in Schedule 3 in accordance with paragraph (2) and regulation 9.
(2) Such information must be published during the offer year and, except in so far as it relates exclusively to primary education, or special educational provision, or provision to which section 19 of EA 1996(1) applies (exceptional provision of education in pupil referral units or elsewhere), must be published no later than six weeks before the date up to which parents may express a preference for a school in respect of the admission year.
(3) Where changes in respect of any of the matters required to be published under this regulation have been decided upon by the local authority but not yet implemented, the local authority must also publish information about those changes.
9.—(1) A local authority must publish the information in Part 1 of Schedule 3 (Miscellaneous Matters)—
(a)by placing it on their website;
(b)by copies being made available for distribution without charge to parents on request, and for reference by parents and other persons—
(i)at the office of the local authority, and
(ii)at every school maintained by the local authority, other than a nursery school, a special school or a pupil referral unit, and at every Academy, city technology college, and city college for the technology of the arts in composite prospectus area;
(c)by copies being distributed without charge to parents of pupils at schools maintained by the local authority, other than nursery schools, special schools or pupil referral units, who, in the offer year, are in the final year at such schools and who might transfer to other schools so maintained; and
(d)by copies being made available for reference by parents and other persons at the public libraries in the area of the local authority.
(2) In the case of the information in paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 (the local authority’s sustainable modes of travel strategy) the local authority need not comply with sub-paragraphs (1)(b) - (d).
(3) It shall be sufficient compliance with paragraph (1)(b)(ii) if so much of the information and particulars as relates to schools classified as—
(a)primary schools;
(b)middle schools;
(c)secondary schools,
is available only in schools of the classification in question.
(4) It shall be sufficient compliance with paragraph (1)(c) if there is published so much of the information and particulars as is relevant having regard to the schools to which pupils in the final year at that school might transfer.
(5) A local authority must publish the information in Part 2 of Schedule 3 (Special Educational Provision —
(a)by placing it on their website;
(b)by copies being made available for distribution without charge to parents on request and, for reference by parents and other persons, at the offices of the relevant authority; and
(c)by copies being available for reference by parents and other persons—
(i)at every school maintained by the local authority, and at every Academy, city technology college, and city college for the technology of the arts in composite prospectus area, and
(ii)at the public libraries in the area of the authority.
(6) A local authority must publish the information in Part 3 of Schedule 3 (Exceptional Provision of Education in Pupil Referral Units or Elsewhere) in the manner set out in paragraph (1)(b) – (d).
Section 19 is amended by section 47 of, and Schedule 8 to, the Education Act 1997, the Education Act 1996 (Amendment of Section 19) (England) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1507), and section 101 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.