Part 4Regulation and inspection of independent educational provision in England

Chapter 2Schools providing for special educational needs

Non-maintained special schools in England

I1144Protection of pupils in an emergency

After section 342 of the Education Act 1996 (c. 56) insert—

Non-maintained special schools in England: protection of pupils in an emergency

342AApplication to justice of the peace: power to make regulations

1

Regulations may make provision conferring power on a justice of the peace, on the application of the Secretary of State, to make an order in an urgent case that a non-maintained special school in England should cease to be approved under section 342.

2

Regulations under this section may in particular make provision corresponding, with or without modifications, to that made in—

a

section 120(2) to (7) of the Education and Skills Act 2008 (emergency orders in relation to registered independent educational institutions), or

b

section 122 of that Act (notification).