# The Education (School Hours and Policies) (Information) Regulations 1989, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which apply to schools maintained by local education authorities and to grant-maintained schools, impose obligations on head teachers, school governing bodies and local education authorities to make information available about school hours and charging and remissions policies.
The head teacher is required to make available to parents and others details of the times at which each school session begins and ends, and of the school governing body’s charging and remissions policies determined under section 110 of the Education Reform Act 1988. This information is to be available for inspection at the school and parents are entitled to a free copy of it (regulation 3).
Local education authorities are required to make available details of their charging and remissions policies at specified locations (regulation 4).
If any change takes place in the governors' charging or remissions policies after the school prospectus has been published but before the governors' report has been completed, they are required to provide details of the change with their report (regulation 5).
The Education (School Information) Regulations 1981 are amended –
(a) so as to require the publication of information to which those and these regulations apply in a document to be known as a prospectus;
(b) by adding to the general information required by those regulations to be published by a local education authority details of the authority’s arrangements for publicising their charging and remissions policies; and
(c) by adding to the specific information required to be published about individual schools information about school hours and the charging and remissions policies adopted by the governing body of each school.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/398/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-hours-and-policies-information-regulations-1989/note
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