Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Education (School Information) (England) Regulations 1994 (“the principal Regulations”). Apart from minor and drafting amendments which correct defects in the principal Regulations, the changes made are as follows.

Regulations 4 and 10(1) of the principal Regulations are amended so that governing bodies and local education authorities are not in breach of their respective obligations to provide and publish information under those Regulations if the information in question is not available to them in time for it to be reasonably practicable to provide or publish it (regulations 2 and 5).

Amendments have been made to the principal Regulations to specify the time and manner of publication under section 8(2) of the Education Act 1980 by governing bodies of aided and special agreement schools of their admission arrangements, or by local education authorities on behalf of such governing bodies under section 8(6) of that Act (regulations 3(a) and (c) and 6).