The Education (School Curriculum and Related Information) Regulations 1989

Public access to documents and information

6.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the head teacher of every maintained school shall make available on request the information referred to in paragraph (3), at all reasonable times.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to such information where it relates solely to a nursery class in a primary school.

(3) The information referred to in paragraph (1) is information relating to–

(a) any statutory instruments, departmental circulars and administrative memoranda sent by the Department of Education and Science to the head teacher or the governing body relating to the powers and duties imposed by or under Chapter I of Part I of the 1988 Act (The Curriculum);

(b) any published reports of Her Majesty’s Inspectors referring expressly to the school;

(c) any schemes of work currently used in the school;

(d) any syllabuses followed by pupils at the school, whether for qualifications authenticated by an outside person or otherwise;

(e) in the case of any county, voluntary or maintained special school (other than a special school established in a hospital), the arrangements made by the education authority under section 23 of the 1988 Act for the consideration and disposal of complaints;

(f) in the case of any grant-maintained school, the arrangements made by the governing body under the school’s articles of government for the consideration and disposal of complaints relating to any matter concerning the curriculum followed within the school;

(g) (i) in the case of any maintained school other than a grant-maintained school, any agreed syllabus for religious education adopted by the education authority which applies in that school;

(ii) in the case of any voluntary school, that part of the trust deed governing religious education and any other written statement produced by the governing body about the arrangements which have been made for religious education in that school; and

(iii) in the case of any grant-maintained school, such of the documents referred to in sub-paragraph (g)(i) or (ii) as apply in relation to that school.

(4) The requirement in paragraph (1) may be fulfilled by making available for inspection copies of any documents referred to in paragraph (3), or of any documents containing the information referred to therein.