The Education (Acquisition of Grant–maintained Status) (Transitional Functions) Regulations 1993

PART IIIPROVISION OF INFORMATION

Information which may be requested by the new governing body

7.—(1) For the purposes of paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 4 to the 1993 Act, the information which may be requested by the new governing body of a grant–maintained school is—

(a)any information held by the existing governing body of the school or, as the case may be, the local education authority by whom the school is maintained relating to the persons employed to work at the school;

(b)any information so held relating to any property (including premises) held or used for the purposes of the school;

(c)any information so held relating to expenditure by the existing governing body of any sums made available to them in respect of the school’s budget share for the financial year in which the request is made;

(d)any information so held relating to any contract entered into, or proposed to be entered into, by the existing governing body or (as the case may be) the local education authority which would or might bind the new governing body when the school becomes grant–maintained; and

(e)any information held by the existing governing body of the school relating to the pupils at the school, including in particular the names and addresses of their parents.

(2) In this regulation—

“financial year” means a period of twelve months ending with 31st March; and

“school’s budget share” shall be interpreted in accordance with section 51(2)(b) of the Education Reform Act 1988(1).