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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations made under the Education Act 2002 revoke and re-enact with modifications the Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions at Key Stage 4) Regulations 2000 and the Education (National Curriculum) (Exceptions at Key Stage 4) (Amendment) Regulations 2002. These Regulations create an expanded set of exceptions to the National Curriculum at Key Stage 4.

The circumstances in which the National Curriculum may be disapplied in respect of Design and Technology and a Modern Foreign Language at Key Stage 4 are extended.

Regulation 7(1)(b) allows a school to disapply the requirement for a pupil to study design and technology and/or a modern foreign language wherever the pupil would benefit educationally from this in the opinion of the head teacher. Regulations 8 and 9 set out conditions to be satisfied where subjects are disapplied.