Paragraph 9

(1)

A person employed at a school specified in sub-paragraph (2) as—

(a)

the head teacher;

(b)

a deputy head teacher;

(c)

an administrator;

(d)

a head of year or a teacher other than a head of year who has pastoral or child protection responsibilities;

(e)

a teacher of children with special educational needs;

(f)

a coordinator of special educational needs provision,

or who is carrying out functions equivalent to the functions of a person referred to in paragraphs (b) to (e).

(2)

The schools referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are—

(a)

a maintained school in England (within the meaning of section 175 of the Education Act 2002);

(b)

an independent school in England (within the meaning of the Education Act 1996), and

(c)

a special school which is not maintained by a local authority and which has been approved as a special school under section 342 of the Education Act 1996^f1 (approval of non-maintained special schools).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1996 c. 56. Section 342 was substituted by paragraph 82 of Schedule 30 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31).