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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-information-england-amendment-regulations-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1365",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Information) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-information-england-amendment-regulations-2007",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend The Education (School Information) (England) Regulations 2002 and come into force on 1st June 2007. They are made under sections 508A and 508D of the Education Act 1996 (“EA 1996”), which were inserted by the Education and Inspections Act 2006.\nThe 2002 Regulations require local education authorities to publish certain information (detailed in Schedule 1 to those Regulations), and a composite prospectus of admission information for schools in their area (detailed in Schedule 2 to those Regulations) for each school year.\nThe amendments made by these Regulations require each authority, in addition, to publish certain information about school travel.\nNew regulations 6 and 7A require each authority to publish, on their web-site, their sustainable modes of travel strategy (which they are required to prepare for each school year by section 508A(1) of EA 1996). [Regulations 4 and 6.]\nNew paragraph 6A of Schedule 1, and new paragraph 9 of Schedule 2, add the requirement to publish a summary of each authority’s sustainable modes of travel strategy. [Regulations 8 and 10.]\nNew paragraph 6 of Schedule 1, and new paragraph 8 of Schedule 2, require each authority to publish details of their general arrangements and policies in respect school travel arrangements made under sections 508B and 508C of EA 1996, or where a school travel scheme is in force under section 508E and Schedule 35C of EA 1996, to publish details of their general arrangements and policies under that scheme. [Regulations 7 and 9.] New regulation 7(4A) requires additional publication of this information on the authority’s web-site. [Regulation 5(a).]\nAmended regulation 7(5) provides that this information need not also be published under Schedule 1 (except on the authority’s web-site), if it is published under Schedule 2. [Regulation 5(b).]\nTransitional provisions [Regulation 11] require that:\nthe new provisions with regard to the publication of an authority’s sustainable modes of travel strategy have effect for the publication school year 2006/2007 (i.e. in respect of the admission school year 2007/2008) and subsequent years,\nthe new provisions with regard to the publication of an authority’s travel arrangements under sections 508B, 508C and 508E and Schedule 35C, have effect for the publication school year 2007/2008 (i.e. in respect of the admission school year 2008/2009) and subsequent years, and\nthe new provisions with regard to the publication of an authority’s summary of their sustainable modes of travel strategy have effect for the publication school year 2008/2009 (i.e. in respect of the admission school year 2009/2010) and subsequent years.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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