(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make provision for and in connection with the establishment, membership, functions and winding up of foundation bodies and the steps to be taken in connection with schools joining or leaving a group of schools for which a foundation body acts.
A foundation body is a body corporate established under section 21 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to perform in relation to three or more schools (“the group”) each of which is either a foundation or a voluntary school, the following functions, namely—
(a)to hold property for those schools for the purposes of the schools;
(b)to appoint foundation governors for those schools; and
(c)to promote co-operation between schools in the group.
Regulation 4 provides that the Education (Change of Category of Maintained Schools) (England) Regulations 2000 shall apply, with the modifications set out in Schedule 1, where a school proposes to enter or leave a group under a different category from its existing category. Schedule 2 shows the effect of these modifications on Schedule 6 to the Change of Category Regulations.
Regulation 29 revokes the Foundation Body Regulations 1999 in relation to England.