The Schools Forums (England) Regulations 2010

Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Schools Forums (England) Regulations 2010 and come into force on 1st April 2010.

(2) These Regulations apply only in relation to England.

(3) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;

“Academy” means an independent school in England to which an agreement under section 482 of the Education Act 1996(1) relates;

“Academies member” means a member who represents the governing bodies of the Academies situated in the authority’s area;

“authority” means the local authority in whose area the schools forum is established but, until such time as a section 162(1)(a) order comes into force, “local authority” means “local education authority”;

“early years providers” means—

(a)

persons who are registered as early years childminders or other early years providers under Chapter 2 of Part 3 of the Childcare Act 2006(2) (which provides for the compulsory registration of persons providing early years provision) or are exempt from compulsory registration by order of the Secretary of State under section 33(2) or 34(3) of that Act;

(b)

independent schools; and

(c)

non-maintained special schools,

who provide early years provision;

“early years provision” has the meaning given by section 20 of the Childcare Act 2006;

“executive member” means any elected member of the authority appointed to the executive of that authority;

“governor” includes any interim executive member of an interim executive board;

“head teacher’s representative” means a senior member of staff representing a head teacher;

“interim executive board” is to be construed in accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Education and Inspections Act 2006(3);

“local authority 14-19 partnership” means the arrangements described in section 85(2) and (3) of the Education and Skills Act 2008(4);

“nursery school” means a nursery school maintained by the authority;

“primary school” means a primary school maintained by the authority;

“relevant officer” means—

(a)

the director of children’s services of the authority; or

(b)

any officer employed or engaged to work under the management of the director of children’s services, other than—

(i)

one who directly provides education to children or who manages such a person; or

(ii)

a school improvement partner;

“representative” means either a head teacher or head teacher’s representative or a governor of a school maintained by the authority;

“school” means a school maintained by the authority;

“school category” means one of the following categories of school—

(a)

community schools,

(b)

foundation schools,

(c)

voluntary aided schools,

(d)

voluntary controlled schools,

as described in Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Act;

“school improvement partner” means a person appointed by the authority under section 5 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006;

“secondary school” means a secondary school maintained by the authority;

“section 162(1)(a) order” means an order under subsection (1) of section 162 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006(5) containing provision made by virtue of paragraph (a) of that subsection (power to replace statutory references to local education authorities with references to local authorities);

“senior member of staff” means a principal, deputy head teacher, bursar or other person responsible for the financial management of the school;

“special school” means a community special school or a foundation special school.

(4) In these Regulations, a reference to a governing body does not include a reference to the temporary governing body of a new school and a reference to a governor does not include a reference to a member of the temporary governing body of a new school, where “new school” has the meaning given by section 72(3) of the Act(6).

(1)

Section 482 of the Education Act 1996 was substituted by section 65 of the Education Act 2002 (c.32).

(2)

2006 c.21.

(3)

2006 c.40.

(4)

2008 c.25.

(5)

2006 c. 40.

(6)

Section 72(3) was amended by section 215(1) of, and paragraph 106 of Schedule 21 to, the Education Act 2002.