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  "legislation_title": "The Education (Special Educational Needs) (Approval of Independent Schools) Regulations 1994",
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  "heading": "Residential care staff",
  "text": "(1) In the case of an independent school which is also a boarding school, there shall be employed staff suitable and sufficient in numbers for the purposes of securing the proper care and supervision of the boarders, and of attending to their welfare.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (1), the staff referred to therein shall include an appropriately qualified and experienced person who is the head of care and who is designated as such; and the head of care shall not also be the head teacher of the school.",
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