Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1065).

Regulation 3 enables any local education authority to act as the appropriate body in relation to teacher induction at an independent school.

Regulation 4 prescribes an additional circumstance for the completion of an induction period in an independent school which is that either a local education authority or the persons or body determined by the Secretary of State under regulation 4(c) must have agreed to act as the appropriate body.

Regulation 5 permits appropriate bodies to give notice of their decisions in relation to induction by facsimile or electronic mail or other similar means.

Regulation 6 adds teachers who have successfully completed induction in Gibraltar, Jersey or Guernsey to the list in Schedule 1 of cases in which teachers are exempt from the requirement to serve an induction period.