Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Education (School Organisation Proposals) (England) Regulations 1999 (No. 2213) (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 5 amends regulation 9 of the principal Regulations (which prescribes events which can be specified in a conditional approval) to include the making of an agreement for the establishment of the new category of school to be known as a city academy introduced by the Learning and Skills Act 2000.

Regulation 7 amends regulation 12 of the principal Regulations to require a school organisation committee to notify interested parties of any notification they receive of a local education authority’s determination to implement proposals to which there were no objections by the end of the objection period.

Regulation 8 adds new regulations 20 and 21 to the principal Regulations to deal with statutory proposals which have not been implemented when a school changes category.

Regulation 9 amends Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations. First, the amendment alters paragraph 2 to require publication of proposals to increase the number of pupils in any relevant age group in cases where the increase (excluding any temporary increase) will amount to 27 or more pupils. It further provides that this requirement does not apply in the case of any increase in the admission of pupils to sixth form education. Secondly, the amendment adds a new paragraph 10 to that Schedule so as to provide for publication of proposals where it is intended to close one of the sites of a multi-site school where any remaining site of the school would be 1.6 kilometres (one mile) or more from the site that is to close.

Regulation 10 amends Part II of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations to require additional information to be included in a notice of proposals to establish a new school and regulation 11 extends the requirements of Part IV of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations to proposals to discontinue sixth form education at a school.

Regulation 13 amends Part III of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations to require additional information to be provided in relation to proposed schools which will provide sixth form education.