Education Act 2002

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Amendments (2020)

Jurisdiction	UK Non-devolved
Citation	2002 c. 32
Year	2002

Contenidos

Education Act 2002
Part 1: Provision for new legal frameworks

Chapter 1: Powers to facilitate innovation

1: Purpose and interpretation of Chapter 1
2: Power to suspend statutory requirements etc
3: Variation or revocation of orders under section 2
4: Applications for orders under section 2
5: Annual report

Chapter 2: Exemptions related to school performance

6: Interpretation of Chapter 2
7: Exemptions available to qualifying schools
8: Applications for orders under section 7(2)
9: Removal of exemptions
10: Determination of pay and conditions during and after exemption

Chapter 3: Powers to form companies etc

11: Powers of governing bodies to form or invest in companies to provide services etc
12: Limits on powers conferred by section 11
13: General powers of Secretary of State in relation to companies

^F30 Part 2: Financial assistance for education and children etc

^F31 14: Power of Secretary of State and National Assembly for Wales to give financial assistance for purposes related to education or children etc
15: Forms of assistance under section 14
16: Terms on which assistance under section 14 is given
17: Delegation
18: Repeal of specific grant-making powers

Part 3: Maintained schools

Chapter 1: Government of maintained schools

19: Governing bodies
20: Instruments of government
21: General responsibility for conduct of school
22: Training and support of governors
23: Clerk to the governing body
^F63 23A: Parent councils
24: Federations of schools
25: Federations: supplementary provisions
26: Collaboration between schools
27: Power of governing body to provide community facilities etc
28: Limits on power to provide community facilities etc
^F78 28A: Power of governing body to provide higher education
29: Additional functions of governing body
^F84 29A: Power of governing body in England: educational provision for improving behaviour
^F85 30: Governors’ reports (Wales) and other information
^F93 30A: School profiles
31: Control of school premises
^F94 32: Responsibility for fixing dates of terms and holidays and times of sessions: England
^F100 32A: Responsibility for fixing term and holiday dates in Wales
32B: Welsh Ministers' power to direct determination of term dates
32C: Responsibility for fixing times of school sessions in Wales
^F102^F101 33: Annual parents’ meetings: Wales
34: Arrangements for government of new schools
35: Staffing of community, voluntary controlled, community special and maintained nursery schools
36: Staffing of foundation, voluntary aided and foundation special schools
37: Payments in respect of dismissal, etc
38: Communication with schools
39: Interpretation of Chapter 1
40: Amendments of Part 2 of School Standards and Framework Act 1998

Chapter 2: Financing of maintained schools

Determination of budgets
Accounts and financial statements

Chapter 3: Admissions, exclusions and attendance

Admission arrangements
Exclusion of pupils
Attendance targets

Part 4: Powers of intervention

Schools causing concern

^F140 54: Duty to notify where inspection shows school causing concern
^F141 55: Cases in which powers of intervention exercisable
^F141 56: Power of Secretary of State to appoint additional governors or direct closure
^F141^F11 57: Power of local authority to provide for governing body to consist of interim executive members
^F141 58: Power of Secretary of State to provide for governing body to consist of interim executive members
^F141 59: Governing bodies consisting of interim executive members

^F51 Local authorities

^F11 60: Powers of Secretary of State to secure proper performance of local authority's functions
61: Power to secure proper performance: duty of authority where directions contemplated
62: Power to secure proper performance: further provisions
^F142^F11 62A: Power to require local authority in England to obtain advisory services
^F146^F11^F145 63: Power to require local authorityin Wales to obtain advisory services
^F147 64: Provisions supplementary to sections 62A and 63

Part 5: School organisation

Academies and city colleges

65: Academies
^F160 66: Arrangements for admission of pupils to Academies
^F161 67: Conversion of city academies into Academies
^F162

68: City colleges

69: Uniform statutory trusts

Proposals to establish, alter or discontinue schools

^F163 70: Proposals for additional secondary schools
^F164^F51 71: Duty of local authorities to secure proposals
^F165 72: Proposals relating to sixth forms
^F166 73: Proposals by governing bodies of community schools
^F167 74: Proposals for establishment of federated school
75: Changes to existing procedures

Part 6: The curriculum in England

Preliminary

76: Interpretation of Part 6
^F175 77: Meaning of “nursery education” and related expressions

General duties in respect of the curriculum

78: General requirements in relation to curriculum
79: Duty to implement general requirements
80: Basic curriculum for every maintained school in England
^F186 80A: Guidance about relationships, sex and health education
^F186 80B: Relationships education and relationships and sex education: statements of policy

The National Curriculum for England

^F187 81: The foundation stage
82: The key stages
^F188 83: Curriculum requirements for foundation stage
84: Curriculum requirements for first, second and third key stages
^F195^F194 85: Curriculum requirements for fourth key stage
86: Power to alter or remove requirements for fourth key stage
87: Establishment of the National Curriculum for England by order
88: Implementation of the National Curriculum for England in schools
^F223 89: Implementation in respect of nursery schools etc

The National Curriculum for England: special cases

90: Development work and experiments
91: Exceptions by regulations
^F234 92: Pupils with EHC plans
^F237 92A: Pupils with Individual Development Plans
93: Temporary exceptions for individual pupils
94: Information concerning directions under section 93
95: Appeals against directions under section 93 etc

Supplementary provisions

^F244 96: Procedure for making certain orders and regulations

^F245 Part 7: The curriculum in Wales

^F245 Preliminary
^F245 General duties in respect of the curriculum
^F245 The National Curriculum for Wales
^F245 The National Curriculum for Wales: special cases
^F245 The local curricula
^F245 Supplementary provisions

Part 8: Teachers

Teachers’ pay and conditions

119: School Teachers’ Review Body
120: Review Body: function
121: Consultation by Review Body
122: Power to prescribe pay and conditions
123: Order under section 122: scope
124: Order under section 122: supplemental
125: Reference to Review Body
126: Consultation by Secretary of State
127: Guidance
128: Education action zone
129: Transfer of employment
130: Repeal of School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Act 1991

School teachers’ appraisal

131: Appraisal

School teachers’ qualifications

132: Qualified teacher status
133: Requirement to be qualified
^F260^F259 134: Requirement to be registered: teachers in Wales
135: Head teachers

^F261 Induction periods: teachers in England

135A: Requirement to serve induction period: teachers in England
135B: Induction periods: appeals
135C: Induction periods: supplementary

Further education

136: Provision of education
137: Principals of further education institutions
138: Training in provision of further education
^F277 139: Wales: provision of higher education
140: Further education: general

Health and fitness

141: Health and fitness

^F280 Teacher misconduct etc: England

141A: Teachers to whom sections 141B to 141E apply
141B: Investigation of disciplinary cases by Secretary of State
141C: List of persons prohibited from teaching etc
141D: Supply of information following dismissal, resignation etc
141E: Supply of information by contractor, agency etc

^F283 Allegations of offences committed by teachers in England and Wales: reporting restrictions

141F: Restrictions on reporting alleged offences by teachers
141G: Offence of breach of reporting restrictions
141H: Defences

Misconduct etc

142: Prohibition from teaching, etc
143: Directions under section 142: contractor, agency, etc
144: Directions under section 142: appeal

Sections 132 to 140: general

145: Specification of qualification or course
146: Repeal of sections 218 and 218A of...

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