Part 9Childcare and nursery education

Nursery education

154 Establishment or alteration of maintained nursery schools

1

Section 28 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31) (procedure on proposals to establish, alter or discontinue schools) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1) (local education authority to publish proposals to establish or alter certain schools), after paragraph (a) there is inserted—

aa

to establish a new maintained nursery school, or

3

In that subsection, after paragraph (c) there is inserted

or

d

in the case of a local education authority in Wales, to make any prescribed alteration to a maintained nursery school