{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-organisation-prescribed-alterations-to-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2007/schedule-1/paragraph-5", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-organisation-prescribed-alterations-to-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2007/schedule-1/paragraph-5.json", "legislation": "uksi/2007/1289", "legislation_title": "The School Organisation (Prescribed Alterations to Maintained Schools) (England) Regulations 2007", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-organisation-prescribed-alterations-to-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2007", "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5", "kind": "paragraph", "number": "5", "heading": "Consultation on proposals", "text": "(1) The governing body must, before they publish any proposals, consult the following persons—\n(a) any local education authority likely to be affected by the proposals, in particular neighbouring local education authorities where there may be significant cross-border movement of pupils;\n(b) families, teachers, and other staff at the school;\n(c) the governing body, teachers and other staff of any other school that may be affected by the proposals;\n(d) families at any other school that may be affected by the proposals including where appropriate parents of pupils at feeder primary schools;\n(e) any trade unions who represent staff at the school and representatives of any trade union of any other staff at schools that may be affected by the proposals;\n(f) if proposals involve, or are likely to affect a school which has a religious character—\n(i) the Diocesan Board of Education for any diocese of the Church of England any part of which is comprised in the area of the local education authority;\n(ii) the bishop of a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church any part of which is comprised in the area of the local education authority; or\n(iii) the relevant faith group in relation to the school\nas appropriate;\n(g) if the proposals affect the provision of full-time 14-19 education, the Learning and Skills Council for England;\n(h) Members of Parliament whose constituencies include the school that is the subject of the proposals, or whose constituents are likely to be affected by the proposals;\n(i) the local district or parish council where the school is situated;\n(j) where proposals affect early years provision, the Early Years Development and Child Care Partnership, or those who benefit from a contractual arrangement giving them the use of the premises;\n(k) where the proposal is one that is a relevant change, the existing trustees;\n(l) any other interested party; and\n(m) any other persons whom the governing body thinks appropriate.\n(2) Where the proposals relate to a special school, the governing body must also consult—\n(a) the relevant Primary Care Trust for the area in which the school is situated; and\n(b) any NHS trust or NHS foundation trust responsible for a hospital or other provision in the area in which the school is situated.", "extent": "E+W", "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "I", "label": "I1", "text": "Sch. 1 para. 5 in force at 25.5.2007, see reg. 1(1)" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f1", "text": "Early Years Development and Child Care Partnerships are required to be established by section 119 of SSFA which is prospectively amended so as not to apply in England by paragraph 32 of Schedule 2 to the Childcare Act 2006 (c.21)." } ], "outstanding_effects": [ { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2009/1556", "affecting_title": "The School Organisation and Governance (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2009" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2012/956", "affecting_title": "The Young People's Learning Agency Abolition (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) (England) Order 2012" }, { "type": "words substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2012/956", "affecting_title": "The Young People's Learning Agency Abolition (Consequential 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