The School Organisation Proposals by the Learning and Skills Council for England Regulations 2001

Provision of information

12.—(1) The school organisation committee shall, within two weeks of the date on which such proposals were sent to them, send to the Secretary of State a copy of all published proposals which are sent to them under paragraph 17 or 25 of Schedule 7 or paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

(2) The school organisation committee shall notify the following persons of each decision taken under paragraph 35(1) or 36(2) of Schedule 7—

(a) the Council;

(b) the local education authority who maintain the school;

(c) where the school is a special school, each local education authority who maintain a statement of special educational needs in respect of a registered pupil at the school;

(d) the governing body of the school to which the proposals relate;

(e) subject to paragraph (6), each objector; and

(f) the Secretary of State.

(3) The school organisation committee shall notify the persons referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) and (f) of paragraph (2) if they refer any proposals or question to the adjudicator under paragraph 35(5) or (6), or 37(1) or (2) of Schedule 7.

(4) The adjudicator shall notify the persons referred to in paragraph (2) of each decision taken under paragraph 35(7) or 37(3) of Schedule 7 other than any decision provision for the notification of which is made by regulation 15 of the Education (Adjudicators Inquiry Procedure etc.) Regulations 1999(1).

(5) Where, pursuant to paragraph (2) the school organisation committee notify the persons referred to in that paragraph of a decision they shall also give reasons for that decision.

(6) Where objections to a proposal take the form of a petition (that is to say a document containing the text of one objection signed by more than one objector) the school organisation committee or the adjudicator may comply with paragraph (2) or (4) by—

(a) notifying the person (if any) who appears to them to have arranged for the petition to be sent to the school organisation committee; or

(b) if there is no such person, notifying the objector whose name appears first on the petition.

(7) Where proposals (“proposals A”) have been sent to the school organisation committee under paragraphs 17 or 25 of Schedule 7, and subsequently further proposals are sent to the committee under section 28(6), 29(5) or 31(5) of the 1998 Act which in the opinion of the committee are related to proposals A the school organisation committee shall notify the Council of that fact and of the effect of regulation 10(4).

(1)

S.I. 1999/1286.