Explanatory note

a change to the requirement for checks with the Criminal Records Bureau on members of the Governing Body of an Academy, city technology college or city college for the technology of the arts. Where the Articles of Association, as approved by the Secretary of State, provide for such checks to be made by the Clerk to the Governing Body those checks are only required in the circumstances specified in the Articles (regulation 3);

a change to the requirement for Criminal Record Bureau checks to be carried out by the Secretary of State. Such checks now apply only to a sole proprietor and the Chair of any body of persons named as the proprietor in the register (or in application to enter a school in the register). The school will carry out Criminal Record Bureau checks on members of any such body of persons and will continue to carry out checks on members of staff (regulation 8);

the insertion of a different requirement for checks on foreign nationals (regulation 9); and

a change to the contact details required from sole proprietors (regulation 11).