Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Education (Provision of Information by Independent Schools) (England) Regulations 2003.
The principal amendments are—
the insertion of a time limit of one month within which the proprietor of an independent school must provide prescribed information to the Secretary of State where he ceases, or might have ceased, to use a person’s service on certain grounds (regulation 5);
a change to the details relating to proprietors required in an application for registration of an independent school (regulation 6);
the insertion of a new requirement to state the number of pupils looked after by a local authority in the return submitted to the Secretary of State within three months of admission of pupils to the school (regulation 7); and
a change to the details required in the annual return relating to new members of bodies involved in the management of schools (regulation 12).