# The Information as to Provision of Education (England) Regulations 2008, Note: Explanatory note

Extent: E+W

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which come into force on 14th February 2008, are made under section 29(3) of the Education Act 1996 and prescribe the information that local education authorities must provide to the Secretary of State in each year relating to the provision of primary and secondary education in their area.
They are consolidating Regulations. They revoke and replace The Education (Information as to Provision of Education) (England) Regulations 1999 and amending Regulations with one change, by introducing a new period within which the information is to be provided each year.
They also contain a new requirement, in regulation 5, that local education authorities provide the Secretary of State with a report each year relating to the number of parental preferences met in accordance with section 86(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.
(Section 86(1) requires local education authorities to make arrangements for enabling parents of children in their area to express a preferences as to the school at which they wish education to be provided for their child in the exercise of the authority’s functions; and section 86(2) requires admission authorities for maintained schools to comply with any preference so expressed, with limited exceptions.)
Regulation 5(1) requires local education authorities to provide a report containing the information specified in Schedule 2 in relation to the admission of children to secondary schools in their area (such as: the number of applications received; the number of first, second, or third etc. preferences met; the number of parents to whom an offer of a school place was made that did not correspond with any of their preferences), correct as at 1st March.
Regulation 5(2) enables local education authorities to provide a further report containing the information specified in Schedule 2, correct as at 1st September each year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/4/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/information-as-to-provision-of-education-england-regulations-2008/note
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