The Education (Approval of Special Schools) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Amendment of the principal Regulations

4.  In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations—

(a) after paragraph 2 there shall be inserted the following:

“Welfare of Pupils

2A.   In the case of a non-maintained school, the governing body shall make such arrangements for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the pupils at the school as shall have been approved by the Secretary of State.”,

(b) for paragraph 9 there shall be substituted the following:

“9.   Arrangements shall be made to secure that, so far as practicable, every pupil attending the school will attend daily religious worship and receive religious education, or will be withdrawn from attendance at such worship or from receiving such education, in accordance with the wishes of his parent.”,

(c) in paragraph 10—

(i) for sub-paragraph (1)(b) there shall be substituted the following:

“(b) shall ensure, in relation to a day pupil whose parents are in receipt of income support or who is himself in receipt of it, that such provision is made for him in the middle of the day, by way of milk, a meal or other refreshment, as appears to them to be requisite.”;

(ii) for sub-paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following:

“(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the governing body must charge for anything provided by them to day pupils by way of milk, a meal or other refreshment and must charge every pupil the same price for the same quantity of the same item.”, and

(d) in sub-paragraph (2)(a) of paragraph 13, for the words “regulations from time to time in force under section 27 of the Act of 1980” there shall be substituted “Regulations(1) from time to time in force under section 218 of the Act of 1988”.

(1)

The relevant Regulations currently in force are regulations 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1319) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to those Regulations, as substituted by S.I. 1989/1541.