Explanatory note

The Education Act 1996 (section 19) requires local education authorities to make arrangements for the provision of suitable education at school or otherwise than at school for those children of compulsory school age who, by reason of illness, exclusion from school or otherwise, may not for any period receive suitable education unless such arrangements are made for them. Any school established and maintained by a local education authority which is specially organised to provide education for such children is known as a pupil referral unit.

Schedule 1 to the Act provides for adaptations and modifications of the application of enactments to pupil referral units.

These Regulations, which come into force on 1^st September 2005, revoke and replace the Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) Regulations 1994 and the Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 in relation to England, and further modify, in relation to England, the application of enactments to pupil referral units.

The Department considers that these Regulations will have no effect on the costs of businesses and accordingly a Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been prepared.