The Education (School and Placing Information) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (School and Placing Information) (Scotland) Regulations 1982 (“the principal Regulations”) to take account of the fact that, by virtue of the School Boards (Scotland) Act 1988, school boards are set up and school councils established under section 125 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 are abolished. The principal Regulations are amended so as to require an education authority, when informing a parent of the particular school in which the authority propose to place his child, to supply that parent with information with respect to: whether a school board is established for the school and, if not, or if one has been disestablished, why that is the case; the composition of the school board for the school, whether or not one is in fact established, which has been specified in regulations made under the School Boards (Scotland) Act 1988 for schools of the size in question; and, where a school board is established for the school, the name of each member of the board and whether each such member is a parent, staff or co-opted member, along with the address to which all communications to the board should be sent. The principal Regulations are also amended so as to remove any requirement on an education authority to make available any information relating to school councils, given their abolition.