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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-special-educational-needs-co-ordinators-england-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2945",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators) (England) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-special-educational-needs-co-ordinators-england-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“relevant school” means a community, foundation or voluntary school or a maintained nursery school;\n“relevant services” means—\n(a) special educational provision, or advice or assistance in relation to such provision or its management,\n(b) assessment of special educational needs, or advice or assistance in relation to such needs or in relation to the management of pupils with such needs;\n“the SENCO”, in relation to a relevant school, means the person who has been designated by the governing body to be the special educational needs co-ordinator for the school.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.9.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2945",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators) (England) Regulations 2008"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2945/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:37:38.205102+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."
}