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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-development-plans-regulations-northern-ireland-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2026/106",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Development Plans) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-development-plans-regulations-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThese Regulations, which are made under Article 13(3) of the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, relate to school development plans in grant-aided schools.\nRegulation 2 revokes the Education (School Development Plans) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010.\nRegulation 4 sets out the matters to be dealt with in a school development plan.\nRegulation 5 stipulates the period for which a school development plan is to have effect.\nRegulation 7 requires Boards of Governors to annually monitor, and review progress made against the school development plan, including to prepare annually a set of actions to be delivered in the forthcoming academic year. It also requires a school development plan to be revised after three years or no later than 6 months following the date of publication of a report of an inspection of a school carried out under Article 102 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/106/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:23:21.455283+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}