Statutory Instruments
EDUCATION, ENGLAND
Made
31st March 2006
Laid before Parliament
7th April 2006
Coming into force
30th April 2006
The Secretary of State for Education and Skills, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections section 29(3) and 569(4) of the Education Act 1996(1), makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as The Education (Information as to Provision of Education)(England)(Amendment Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 30th April 2006.
2. The Education (Information as to Provision of Education) (England) Regulations(2) shall be amended as follows.
3. In regulation 2(1)
(a)before the definition of “school year” insert—
“ “district” means the area of the council of a district where that council is not a unitary authority;”;
(b)after the definition of “surplus places” insert the following definition—
“ “unitary authority” has the same meaning as in section 261(3) of the Housing Act 2004(3): the council of a district so far as it is the council for an area for which there are no district councils; and the council of any district comprised in an area for which there is no district council;”.
4. In paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 1 for the word “four” substitute the word “five”.
5. After paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 insert the following—
“3A In cases where there the local education authority is the council of a county and not a unitary authority, a forecast for each district of the number of registered pupils firstly for whom primary education is provided and secondly for whom secondary education is provided, in community, foundation and voluntary schools maintained by the local education authority on 1st January in each school year for—
the following year;
the fifth year of the respective periods as provided in paragraph 3; and
the sixth year of the respective period as provided in paragraph 3(b) for pupils in the third key stage and fourth key stage (as defined in section 82(1)(c) and (d) of the Education 2002(4) only.”
Jacqui Smith
Minister of State
Department for Education and Skills
31st March 2006
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Education (Information as to the Provision of Education)(England) Regulations 1999.
The amendments change the period for which local authorities must provide the forecasted figures of the number of pupils enrolled in primary schools from a four year period to a five year period.
They add an additional requirement for local authorities that are divided into districts to provide forecasted figures every year of the number of pupils per district for the following school year, the fifth year of the period and the sixth year of the period for key stages three and four only.