(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make amendments to the Education (School Information) (England) Regulations 2002 (“the principal regulations”) in relation to the information that the governing bodies of maintained schools are obliged to publish in the school prospectus. The Regulations come into force on 1st September 2005.
Regulation 3(c) amends the principal regulations to remove the duty on the head teacher to make certain information available to the governing body.
Regulation 3(f) amends the principal regulations to provide that the governing body must publish the special educational needs report referred to in section 317(5) of the Education Act 1996 (“the SEN report”) and any other general information relating to the school which they may decide to publish as a single document identified as the school prospectus. The effect of this provision and paragraphs (e) and (h) of regulation 3 is that the only statutory requirement as to the contents of the school prospectus is the SEN report. The remainder of regulation 3 provides for amendments to the principal regulations consequential upon paragraphs (e), (f) and (h) of regulation 3.
Regulation 4 provides that the governing bodies of maintained schools which, before the coming into force of these Regulations, have already published a school prospectus in respect of the publication school year 2005/2006 in accordance with the principal regulations are not required by these Regulations to publish a further school prospectus in respect of the same publication school year.