Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

In these Regulations—

• “the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989^f1;

• “the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;

• F1“the 2024 Regulations” means the School Attendance (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2024;

• “adoption order” has the meaning given by section 46(1) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002^f2;

• “alternative provision Academy” has the meaning given by section 1C of the Academies Act 2010^f3

• “budget share” means a budget share allocated in accordance with section 45(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998^f4

• F2“child arrangements order” means a child arrangements order as defined by section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 which consists of, or includes, arrangements relating to either or both of the following (i) with whom the child is to live, and (ii) when the child is to live with any person;

• “commissioning local authority” means the local authority with responsibility for arranging the education provision being commissioned for the pupil;

• F3“date of admission to the school” means the date on which the pupil’s name is added to the school’s admission register;

• “exclusion start date” means the date set by the head teacher for the exclusion to take effect;

• “learning aim” means a course of study leading to a qualification to which Part 7 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009^f5 applies which is awarded or authenticated by a body which is recognised by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation under section 132 of that Act in respect of the qualification and which has been allocated a qualification number;

• “level 3” means level 3 as determined by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation;

• “looked-after child” means a person who, for the purposes of section 22(1) of the 1989 Act^f6 F4or, as the case may be, section 74(1) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, is a child looked after by a local authority, and references to the local authority looking after the child are to be read accordingly;

• “non-maintained special school” means a special school which is not maintained by a local authority and which is approved for the time being by the Secretary of State under section 342 of the 1996 Act^f7;

• “part-time” in relation to the attendance of a pupil means that the pupil attends fewer than ten school sessions in any week during which the school meets;

• “permanently excluded” in relation to a pupil means permanently excluded on disciplinary grounds from the school to which a request is made under regulation 3 or 5;

• “qualification number” means the number assigned to a pupil’s learning aim by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation;

• “register” means the register of pupils kept under section 434 of the 1996 Act^f8 and refers to the admission register or attendance register kept in accordance with F5the 2024 Regulations as the case may require;

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• “special educational needs provision type” means the type of special educational needs provision forming part of the graduated approach adopted pursuant to F7F8the “Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years” published on 29th January 2015 under section 77 of the Children and Families Act 2014;

• “special school” has the meaning given by section 337 of the 1996 Act^f9;

• “special guardianship order” has the meaning given by section 14A(1) of the 1989 Act^f10;

• “top up funding” means funding paid to—

  1. (i)

     a maintained school by the commissioning local authority, in addition to the school’s budget share;

  2. (ii)

     a pupil referral unit by the commissioning local authority, or by the governing body of the school that commissions the education provision, in additional to the unit’s budget share;

  3. (iii)

     an Academy by the commissioning local authority, in addition to the general annual grant paid to the Academy by the Secretary of State;

  4. (iv)

     an alternative provision Academy by the commissioning local authority, or by the governing body or proprietor of the school that commissions the education provision, in addition to the general annual grant paid to the Academy by the Secretary of State;

  5. (v)

     a non-maintained special school by the commissioning local authority, in addition to the amount allocated to the school by the Secretary of State,

  in order to meet the educational needs of a pupil.

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• “unique learner number”, in relation to a registered pupil at a school, means the specific combination of numbers allocated to the pupil by F10the Secretary of State as that pupil’s unique learner number; and

• “unique pupil number” means a combination of numbers which together with a letter or letters are allocated to a pupil and are particular to that pupil, by use of a formula determined by the Department for Education.