{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-discipline-pupil-exclusions-and-reviews-england-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-discipline-pupil-exclusions-and-reviews-england-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/788",
  "legislation_title": "The School Discipline (Pupil Exclusions and Reviews) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-discipline-pupil-exclusions-and-reviews-england-amendment-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment to regulation 2 of the 2012 Regulations: interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 2 (interpretation) of the 2012 Regulations is amended as follows.\n(2) After the definition of “SEN expert”, insert—\n““social worker” means a registered social worker within the meaning of regulations 2(5) and (6) of the Social Workers Regulations 2018 and a reference to a social worker in these Regulations is a reference to any social worker who is assigned to the pupil who is excluded from a maintained school, pupil referral unit or an Academy;”.\n(3) At the end of the definition of “unit”, omit “and”.\n(4) After the definition of “unit”, insert—\n““virtual school head” means a person appointed under section 22(3B) (general duty of local authority in relation to children looked after by them) of the Children Act 1989 and a reference to a virtual school head in these Regulations is to any virtual school head who has responsibility for the pupil who is excluded from a maintained school, pupil referral unit or an Academy; and”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2018/893."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 (c. 41). Section 22(3B) was inserted by section 99 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), and amended by S.I. 2016/413."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/788/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:57:35.034265+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."
}