Regulation 3 Duty to request a reintegration interview

(1)

The head teacher of a maintained school must request a parent^f1 of a temporarily excluded pupil, being an individual who resides with the pupil, to attend a reintegration interview in the cases prescribed by paragraph (2).

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), the cases prescribed are where a pupil of a compulsory school age is temporarily excluded on disciplinary grounds from—

(a)

a primary school for any fixed period, or

(b)

a secondary school for any fixed period of six or more school days.

(3)

A case is not prescribed where—

(a)

the first day to which the exclusion relates falls within the last ten school days of the last term in any school year, or

(b)

the head teacher expects the pupil to cease to attend the school within the period described in regulation 4(2) for a reason unconnected with the pupil’s behaviour.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 576 of the Education Act 1996 defines a 'parent' for the purpose of these regulation.