The School Organisation (Establishment and Discontinuance of Schools) Regulations 2013

Manner in which proposals are to be published

7.—(1) The local authority must publish on their website the proposals submitted to them pursuant to section 7 and include a statement detailing how copies of the published proposals may be obtained.

(2) Where the local authority are to consider non-Academy proposals(1) under paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the Act, or the adjudicator(2) is to consider proposals under paragraph 10(3) of that Schedule, the local authority must publish on their website—

(a) a statement that any person may object to or comment on the proposals;

(b) the address to which any objections or comments should be sent; and

(c) the date (in accordance with regulation 13) by which such objections or comments must be sent.

(3) Within one week of the date of a publication under paragraph (2) the local authority must send a copy of any non-Academy proposals together with any statement published under paragraph (2) to any body or person that the local authority think appropriate.

(4) Within one week of receiving a request for a copy of the proposals the local authority must send a copy to the person requesting it.

(1)

For the meaning of “non-Academy proposals” see paragraph 3A of Schedule 2 to the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (“the Act”).

(2)

For the meaning of “adjudicator” see section 25 of SSFA 1998.

(3)

Paragraph 10 was amended by section 37 of, and Schedule 11 to, the Education Act 2011.