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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-pupil-referral-units-management-committees-etc-wales-regulations-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2014/2709",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Management Committees etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-pupil-referral-units-management-committees-etc-wales-regulations-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which come into force on 31 October 2014, require local authorities to establish management committees to run pupil referral units (PRUs) in their area, and make provision for the constitution and procedures of such committees.\nPart 2 requires local authorities to establish a committee in relation to each PRU in their area, with the proviso that a committee may run more than one PRU. In relation to PRUs opened before 31 October 2014, a committee must be established by 23 February 2015. In relation to PRUs opened on or after 31 October 2014, a committee must be established (or arrangements must be made for an existing committee to take on the management of the PRU) by no later than the first day it is open to pupils (regulations 3 and 4). The local authority must make an instrument of government in respect of each unit (or group of units) and appoint the first members (other than those who are required to be elected (regulation 5).\nPart 3 prescribes the categories of members. Part 4 prescribes the composition of committees. Part 5 prescribes the qualifications and tenure of office of members.\nPart 6 makes provision for the procedures of committees by applying the Government of Maintained Schools (Wales) Regulations 2005 to committees, with certain modifications (regulation 21 and Schedule 3).\nRegulations 22 and 23 in Part 7, which come into force on 23 February 2015, require local authorities to delegate certain functions, principally the function of conducting the unit, to the committee and require a written statement of policy in relation to the curriculum for the unit to be made and periodically reviewed.\nThe Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has been prepared as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations. A copy can be obtained at the Support for Learners Division, Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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