2014 No. 3216

Education, England

The Education (Provision of Full-Time Education for Excluded Pupils) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 19(3B) and 569(4) of the Education Act 19961 and sections 100(2) and 181(2) of the Education and Inspections Act 20062.

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Provision of Full-Time Education for Excluded Pupils) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 5th January 2015.

Amendment to the Education (Provision of Full-Time Education for Excluded Pupils) (England) Regulations 20072

1

The Education (Provision of Full-Time Education for Excluded Pupils) (England) Regulations 20073 are amended as follows.

2

In regulations 3(3) and 4(3)(b), for “school day of the exclusion” substitute “consecutive school day of exclusion, regardless of whether the pupil has been excluded for a single fixed period or more than one fixed period”.

Nick GibbMinister of StateDepartment for Education
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Provision of Full-Time Education for Excluded Pupils) (England) Regulations 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”). The effect of the amendment is that consecutive periods of exclusion are considered as one continuous period for the purposes of making arrangements for the provision of suitable full-time education for a pupil of compulsory school age who is excluded for a fixed period on disciplinary grounds.

Regulation 2 of these Regulations provides that “the relevant day” as defined in regulation 3(3) and 4(3)(b) of the 2007 Regulations (the day from which suitable full-time education must be provided for a pupil excluded from a relevant school or a pupil referral unit) is the sixth consecutive school day of exclusion, regardless of whether the pupil has been excluded for one or more fixed periods.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument because no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is expected.