Learning and Skills Act 2000

1 (1) Paragraphs 2 to 7 apply to a maintained school (within the meaning given by section 20(7) of the M1 School Standards and Framework Act 1998) which— E+W

(a) provides full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils over compulsory school age, and

(b) provides full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils of compulsory school age.

[F1 (2) For the purposes of those paragraphs a school requires significant improvement in relation to its sixth form if—

(a) the school is failing to give its pupils over compulsory school age an acceptable standard of education, or

(b) in relation to its provision for pupils over compulsory school age, the school is performing significantly less well than it might in all the circumstances reasonably be expected to perform. ]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 7 para. 1(2) substituted (1.9.2005 for E., 1.9.2006 for W.) by Education Act 2005 (c. 18), s. 125(4), Sch. 5 para. 3(3); S.I. 2005/2034, art. 4; S.I. 2006/1338, art. 3, Sch. 1

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 7 para. 1 wholly in force at 1.4.2002; Sch. 7 para. 1 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 154; Sch. 7 para. 1 in force (E.) for the purpose of authorising the making of Regulations at 1.10.2000 by S.I. 2000/2559, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. I; Sch. 7 para. 1 wholly in force for E. at 1.4.2001 by S.I. 2001/654, art. 2, Sch. 2 Pt. II; Sch. 7 para. 1 in force for W. at 1.4.2002 by S.I. 2001/2705, art. 2, Sch. Pt. I

Marginal Citations

M1 1998 c. 31.