# School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013, Section 3: Warning notice


(1) If a local authority is satisfied that one or more of grounds 1 to 6 exist in relation to one of its maintained schools, the authority may give a warning notice to the governing body of the school.
(2) The local authority must specify each of the following in the warning notice—
(a) the grounds for intervention;
(b) the reasons why the authority is satisfied that the grounds exist;
(c) the action the authority requires the governing body to take in order to deal with the grounds for intervention;
(d) the period within which the action is to be taken by the governing body (“the compliance period”);
(e) the action the authority is minded to take if the governing body fails to take the required action.
(3) If the local authority gives a warning notice to the governing body of a school, it must at the same time give a copy of the warning notice to—
(a) the head teacher;
(b) if the school is a foundation or voluntary school—
(i) the person who appoints the foundation governors, and
(ii) if the school has a religious character, the appropriate religious body;
(c) the Welsh Ministers.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2013/1/section/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-organisation-wales-act-2013/section-3
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