EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make provision in respect of coasting schools. Regulation 3 provides that the regulations do not apply in relation to maintained nursery school.
Regulation 4 provides, for the purposes of section 60B of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), a new definition of the circumstances in a which a school to which that section applies is deemed to be coasting.
Regulations 5 and 6 respectively provide for the application, with modifications, of this new definition of coasting school to pupil referral units, by way of amendments to the Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Management Committees etc) (England) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2978) and the Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (England) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2979).
Regulation 7 revokes the Coasting Schools (England) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/9).
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.