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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-special-educational-needs-approval-of-independment-schools-regulation-1991/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-special-educational-needs-approval-of-independment-schools-regulation-1991/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/449",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Special Educational Needs) (Approval of Independment Schools) Regulation 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-special-educational-needs-approval-of-independment-schools-regulation-1991",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Residential care staff",
  "text": "(1) In the case of an independent school which is also a boarding school, and subject to paragraph 2(2), there shall be employed staff suitable and sufficient in number 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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  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/449/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:50:06.216484+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}