The Education (School Organisation Plans) (Wales) Regulations 1999

Content and duration of School organisation plan

3.—(1) For the purposes of section 26(2)(a) of the Act (which provides that a school organisation plan is a statement which sets out how the authority propose to exercise their functions during the prescribed period with a view to securing the provision of primary and secondary education that will meet the needs of the population of their area during that period) the prescribed period shall be the period starting with the date with effect from which the draft plan was adopted by the authority under regulation 7 or 8 (as the case may be) and ending at the end of the fifth school year after the school year in which the initial draft plan was published.

(2) The reference in paragraph (1) to the initial draft plan is a reference to the draft plan published under regulation 4 (irrespective of whether a fresh draft plan replacing that draft plan was subsequently published under regulation 8(1)).

(3) The plan shall in particular deal with–

(a) the authority’s proposals for remedying any excess or insufficiency in the provision of primary and secondary education in schools maintained by the authority during the period to which the plan relates; and

(b) the provision which they propose to make during that period for children with special educational needs.