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These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Approval of Special Schools) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
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In regulation 2 of the Education (Approval of Special Schools) Regulations 1983(“the principal Regulations”), immediately after the definition of “the Act of 1981” there shall be inserted—“
 “the Act of 1988” means the Education Reform Act 1988;”.
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In regulation 7 of the principal Regulations, for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following—“
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of State may withdraw his approval of a school on the ground that, in the case of that school, there has been a failure to comply with any requirement applicable to the school and contained in—
(a) these Regulations;
(b) the Regulations from time to time in force under section 218 of the Act of 1988;
(c) the Regulations made under section 27 of the Act of 1980 to the extent that they continue to have effect on the repeal of that section and the coming into force section 218 of the Act of 1988 on 1st April 1989, or
(d) the Regulations from time to time in force under section 10 of the Act of 1944.”.
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In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations—
(a) after paragraph 2 there shall be inserted the following:“
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In the case of a non-maintained school, the governing body shall make such arrangements for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the pupils at the school as shall have been approved by the Secretary of State.”,
(b) for paragraph 9 there shall be substituted the following:“
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Arrangements shall be made to secure that, so far as practicable, every pupil attending the school will attend daily religious worship and receive religious education, or will be withdrawn from attendance at such worship or from receiving such education, in accordance with the wishes of his parent.”,
(c) in paragraph 10—
(i) for sub-paragraph (1)(b) there shall be substituted the following:“
(b) shall ensure, in relation to a day pupil whose parents are in receipt of income support or who is himself in receipt of it, that such provision is made for him in the middle of the day, by way of milk, a meal or other refreshment, as appears to them to be requisite.”;
(ii) for sub-paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following:“
(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the governing body must charge for anything provided by them to day pupils by way of milk, a meal or other refreshment and must charge every pupil the same price for the same quantity of the same item.”, and
(d) in sub-paragraph (2)(a) of paragraph 13, for the words “regulations from time to time in force under section 27 of the Act of 1980” there shall be substituted “Regulations from time to time in force under section 218 of the Act of 1988”.
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In Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations—
(a) for paragraph 5 there shall be substituted the following:“
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(1) Particulars of the school curriculum including, in particular—
(a) of the curricula for different age groups;
(b) of the subject choices, if any, available (including the arrangements for the making by parents and pupils of such choices);
(c) of the manner and context in which education as respects sexual matters is given; and
(d) of the careers education provided.
(2) Particulars relating to the school curriculum including, in particular—
(a) a list of the external qualifications for which courses of study are provided for pupils of compulsory school age at the school and which are for the time being approved by the Secretary of State or by a designated body under section 5 of the Act of 1988;
(b) the titles of the syllabuses associated with the qualifications referred to in sub-paragraph (a), or where criteria for determining a syllabus have been so approved, a statement to that effect;
(c) a list of the external qualifications, and the names of the syllabuses associated with them, which are offered to pupils over compulsory school age; and
(d) the arrangements for the inspection and (where applicable) the obtaining of copies of any documents which are for the time being required to be made available by or under the Education (School Curriculum and Related Information) Regulations 1989.”;
(b) in paragraph 11 the words “including, in particular, the practice of the school as respects corporal punishment” shall be omitted.
Kenneth Clarke
Secretary of State for Education and Science
6th March 1991David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
6th March 1991