http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/22/section/246Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009An Act to make provision about apprenticeships, education, training and children's services; to amend the Employment Rights Act 1996; to establish the Young People's Learning Agency for England, the office of Chief Executive of Skills Funding, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation and the School Support Staff Negotiating Body and to make provision about those bodies and that office; to make provision about the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority; to make provision about schools and institutions within the further education sector; to make provision about student loans; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-05-06Expert Participation2026-04-22 Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009specified provision(s) and purposesThe Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Order 2010Gorchymyn Deddf Prentisiaethau, Sgiliau, Plant a Dysgu 2009 (Cychwyn Rhif 2 a Darpariaethau Trosiannol) (Cymru) 2010art. 2commencement order for 2009 c. 22Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009specified provision(s) and purposesThe Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 3) (Wales) Order 2011Gorchymyn Deddf Prentisiaethau, Sgiliau, Plant a Dysgu 2009 (Cychwyn Rhif 3) (Cymru) 2011art. 2commencement order for 2009 c. 22Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009specified provision(s)The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2010 (Amendment) Order 2011art. 2commencement order for 2009 c. 22Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009specified provision(s)The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No.1) (Wales) Order 2009Gorchymyn Deddf Prentisiaethau, Sgiliau, Plant a Dysgu 2009 (Cychwyn Rhif 1) (Cymru) 2009art. 2commencement order for 2009 c. 22Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009s. 86(1A)(1B)English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026Sch. 13 para. 2(2)s. 102s. 108(1)(3)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009s. 87(1A)(1B)English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026Sch. 13 para. 3(2)s. 102s. 108(1)(3)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009s. 88(8)English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026Sch. 13 para. 4(7)s. 102s. 108(1)(3)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009s. 90(1A)English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026Sch. 13 para. 5(2)s. 102s. 108(1)(3)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009s. 100(1C)English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026Sch. 13 para. 6(6)s. 102s. 108(1)(3)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009s. 103(1A)English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026Sch. 13 para. 8s. 102s. 108(1)(3)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009s. 114A and cross-headingEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026Sch. 13 para. 9s. 102s. 108(1)(3)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009s. 115(1)-(2B)English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026Sch. 13 para. 10s. 102s. 108(1)(3)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009s. 120BEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026Sch. 13 para. 11s. 102s. 108(1)(3)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009s. 121(3A)(3B)English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026Sch. 13 para. 12(3)s. 102s. 108(1)(3)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009s. 122(3)(fe)-(fh)English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026Sch. 13 para. 13(2)(a)s. 102s. 108(1)(3)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009s. 122(5)(d)-(g)English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026Sch. 13 para. 13(3)s. 102s. 108(1)(3) Part 11246After section 93 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40) (power of members of staff to use force) insert—93A1The governing body of a school in England must ensure that a procedure is in place for—arecording each significant incident in which a member of the staff uses force on a pupil for whom education is being provided at the school (a “use of force incident”); andbreporting each use of force incident (except those where the pupil is aged 20 or over or provision made under subsection (5) applies) to each parent of the pupil as soon as practicable after the incident.2The governing body must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the procedure is complied with.3The procedure must require that a record of a use of force incident is made in writing as soon as practicable after the incident.4In discharging their duty under subsection (1), the governing body must have regard to any guidance issued by the Secretary of State for the purposes of that subsection.5A procedure under subsection (1) must include provision to the effect—athat a person (“R”) who would otherwise be required by the procedure to report an incident to a parent must not report it to that parent if it appears to R that doing so would be likely to result in significant harm to the pupil; andbthat if it appears to R that there is no parent of the pupil to whom R could report the incident without that being likely to result in significant harm to the pupil, R must report the incident to the local authority ... within whose area the pupil is ordinarily resident.6In deciding for the purposes of provision made under subsection (5) whether reporting an incident to a parent would be likely to result in significant harm to the pupil, R must have regard to any guidance issued by the Secretary of State about the meaning of “significant harm” for those purposes.7In this section—“governing body”, in relation to a school which is not a maintained school, means the proprietor of the school;“maintained school” means—a community, foundation or voluntary school;a community or foundation special school;a maintained nursery school;“parent”, in relation to a pupil, has the meaning given by section 576 of EA 1996 in relation to a child or young person, but includes a local authority which provides accommodation for the pupil under section 20 of the Children Act 1989.Words in s. 246 repealed (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children's Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 16(12), Sch. 3 Pt. 1S. 246 in force at 1.4.2026 by S.I. 2025/1341, art. 2