2020 No. 894

Education, England

The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 537(1)(a)(i) and (4), and 569(4) of the Education Act 19961.

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 1st January 2021.

Amendment to the School Information (England) Regulations 20082

1

The School Information (England) Regulations 20082 are amended as follows.

2

In Schedule 4 (specified information to be published on a school’s website), after paragraph 15 insert—

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1

The number of school employees (if any) whose gross annual salary for employment at the school is equal to or exceeds £100,000, shown as the total number of those employees falling within salary bands of £10,000, starting from £100,000 and continuing upwards as appropriate.

2

In this paragraph, “school employees” means persons employed as a member of staff of the school under a contract of employment with the governing body or local authority in accordance with section 35(2) or 36(2) of the Education Act 20023.

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1

A link to the school’s page on the Schools Financial Benchmarking website, where the school has a page, using the school’s URN.

2

In this paragraph—

a

“Schools Financial Benchmarking website” means the online schools financial benchmarking service4 maintained by the Department for Education; and

b

“URN” means the unique reference number allocated to the school by the Department for Education for the purposes of identification and registration on the website known as “Get Information About Schools”5 maintained by the Department.

BerridgeParliamentary Under Secretary of StateDepartment for Education
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the School Information (England) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3093) to require maintained schools to publish information relating to the number of school employees who earn £100,000 or more, and to publish a link to the school’s webpage on the online Schools Financial Benchmarking service maintained by the Department for Education.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.