The Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014

Independent school standards

3.—(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), the provisions contained in the Schedule are prescribed as the independent school standards for the purposes of Part 4 of the 2008 Act in relation to any school.

(2) The standards contained in the following provisions of the Schedule do not apply to an Academy(1)—

(a) Part 1;

(b) paragraph 32(1)(b) insofar as it relates to the information referred to in paragraph 32(3)(b), (c) and (e); and

(c) paragraph 32(1)(h).

(3) The standards referred to in paragraph (2) of this Regulation and the standards contained in paragraphs 15 and 32(1)(f) of the Schedule do not apply to a city technology college or a city college for the technology of the arts(2).

(1)

An educational institution to which Academy arrangements relate is known as an Academy under section 1(10) of the Academies Act 2010 (c.32) as amended by sections 53(1) and (6) of the 2011 Act. “Academy arrangements” are defined in section 1(2) of that Act.

(2)

City technology colleges and city technology colleges of the arts were established under section 482 of the Education Act 1996 as originally enacted which was subsequently repealed by section 63 and paragraph 16 of Schedule 14 to the 2011 Act.