{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-discipline-pupil-exclusions-and-reviews-england-regulations-2012/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-discipline-pupil-exclusions-and-reviews-england-regulations-2012/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1033",
  "legislation_title": "The School Discipline (Pupil Exclusions and Reviews) (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-discipline-pupil-exclusions-and-reviews-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Review of permanent exclusion of a pupil",
  "text": "(1) Where the relevant person applies for a review, the proprietor must, at its expense—\n(a) make arrangements for the review of its decision not to reinstate a pupil who has been permanently excluded; and\n(b) if requested by the relevant person, appoint, for the purpose of that review, a SEN expert to provide impartial advice on how special educational needs may be relevant to the decision to exclude the pupil permanently.\n(2) The proprietor is not to take the steps in paragraph (1) where the relevant person has not applied for a review within the time limit specified in Schedule 1.\n(3) Where the relevant person wishes that a SEN expert be appointed for a review, the request must be made in writing to the proprietor with, and at the same time as, the application for a review.\n(4) In exercising its functions under these Regulations, the review panel must consider the interests and circumstances of the excluded pupil, including the circumstances in which the pupil was excluded, and have regard to the interests of other pupils and persons working at the Academy (including persons working at the Academy voluntarily).\n(5) In addition to the powers of the review panel under section 51A(4) of the Act (as modified), the panel may—\n(a) direct the proprietor to place a note on the pupil's educational record;\n(b) order that the proprietor is to make a payment to the local authority in the sum of £4,000 if, following a decision by the panel to quash the proprietor's original decision, the proprietor—\n(i) reconsiders the exclusion and decides not to reinstate the pupil; or\n(ii) fails to reconsider the exclusion within the time limit specified in regulation 26(1).\n(6) The review panel's decision is binding on the relevant person, the principal , the proprietor, the social worker and the virtual school head.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 25(6) substituted (1.9.2022) by The School Discipline (Pupil Exclusions and Reviews) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/788), regs. 1(2), 17(2) (with reg. 3(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1033/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:34:23.166454+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."
}