Regulation 3 Content and duration of School Organisation Plan

(1)

For the purposes of section 26(2)(a) of the Act (which provides that a school organisation plan is a statement which sets out how the authority propose to exercise their functions during the prescribed period with a view to securing the provision of primary and secondary education that will meet the needs of the population of the area during that period) the prescribed period shall be the period which starts–

(a)

at the beginning of the school year after that in which the draft plan was published under regulation 4; or

(b)

if later, the date on which the draft plan was approved,

and which ends at the end of the fifth school year after the school year in which the draft plan was published.

(2)

The plan shall in particular deal with–

(a)

how the authority propose to remedy any excess or insufficiency in the provision of primary and secondary education in schools maintained by the authority during the period to which the plan relates; and

(b)

the provision which they propose to make during that period for children with special educational needs.