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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/grants-for-school-education-early-intervention-and-alternatives-to-exclusion-scotland-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1638",
  "legislation_title": "The Grants for School Education (Early Intervention and Alternatives to Exclusion) (Scotland) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/grants-for-school-education-early-intervention-and-alternatives-to-exclusion-scotland-regulations-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations enable the Secretary of State to pay grants to education authorities in Scotland for expenditure for two separate purposes.\nThe first purpose is the development and implementing of early intervention, that is targeted provision to improve the basic reading, writing or numeracy skills of pupils in primary schools.\nThe second purpose is the development and implementation of alternative arrangements for pupils to avoid the need to exclude them from school on disciplinary grounds.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1638/note",
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  "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."
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