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  "legislation_title": "The Education (Special Educational Needs) (Approval of Independent Schools) Regulations 1994",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exclusions",
  "text": "(1) The proprietor shall make and maintain arrangements to secure that children shall not be excluded from the school otherwise than on reasonable grounds.\n(2) Before any decision is taken as to whether any child is to be excluded the proprietor or head teacher shall give, unless it would not be appropriate to do so in any case, written notice to his parents, the local education authority or, as the case may be, the local authority who have arranged for the placing of the child at the school and the local authority in whose area the school is situated, stating the grounds for the proposed exclusion, and shall take into account any representation made by them.",
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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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