Children, Schools and Families Bill/Amendments to Section 19C of Schedule 1
Current wording of Section 19C
[edit | edit source]19C Entry of child’s details on home education register: supplementary provision
- (1) Regulations may make provision about steps to be taken by an authority in connection with an application for a child’s details to be entered on their home education register.
- (2) The regulations may, in particular, make provision about matters that are or are not to be taken into account by an authority in deciding—
- (a) whether to register a child’s details under section 19B(3);
- (b) whether a child is within section 19B(7);
- (c) whether section 19B(8) applies to a child’s application.
- (3) Regulations under section 19B(1)(a) may, in particular, make provision within subsection (4) or (5).
- (4) Provision within this subsection is provision—
- (a) about how an application for registration of a child’s details is to be made;
- (b) requiring an application for registration of a child’s details to include a statement giving prescribed information about the child’s prospective education;
- (c) requiring an application to include other prescribed information;
- (d) about the form in which a statement mentioned in paragraph (b), or any other information required to be included in an application, is to be provided;
- (e) for an application for registration to include an undertaking to provide a statement mentioned in paragraph (b), or other prescribed information, to the authority within a period determined by or in accordance with the regulations.
- (5) Provision within this subsection is provision permitting an authority to specify a period, prescribed by or determined in accordance with the regulations, within which an application to enter on their home education register the details of a child to whom subsection (6) applies may not be made unless the authority are satisfied that there has been a change of circumstances that justifies an application being made within that period.
- (6) This subsection applies to a child if—
- (a) a parent of the child has previously made an application in the prescribed manner for the child’s details to be entered on a home education register maintained by a local authority, and the application (or the most recent such application) did not succeed, or
- (b) the child’s details have previously been registered on a home education register maintained by a local authority, and the registration (or the most recent such registration) has been revoked under section 19F.
Proposed amendments to Section 19C
[edit | edit source]Amendment 1
Section 19C(1) Replace "an application" with "a notification"
Amendment 2
Section 19C(2)(a) After 19B(3) add "or apply to the court to assess suitability of educational provision"
Amendment 3
Section 19C(2)(c) replace "application" with "notification"
Amendment 4
Section 19C(3) remove reference to subsection (5)
Amendment 5
Section 19C(4) Remove in its entirety and replace with "Notification shall take place by means of a parent returning a form that requires the child's name, date of birth, address, and the names of the parents responsible for that child"
Amendment 6
Section 19C(5) remove entirely, and renumber accordingly
Amendment 7
Section 19C(6)(a) Replace "an application" with "a notification" and "application" with "notification" (2 places)
How it would look as amended
[edit | edit source]19C Entry of child’s details on home education register: supplementary provision
- (1) Regulations may make provision about steps to be taken by an authority in connection with a notification for a child’s details to be entered on their home education register.
- (2) The regulations may, in particular, make provision about matters that are or are not to be taken into account by an authority in deciding—
- (a) whether to register a child’s details under section 19B(3) or apply to the court to assess suitability of educational provision;
- (b) whether a child is within section 19B(7);
- (c) whether section 19B(8) applies to a child’s notification.
- (3) Regulations under section 19B(1)(a) may, in particular, make provision within subsection (4).
- (4) Notification shall take place by means of a parent returning a form that requires the child's name, date of birth, address, and the names of the parents responsible for that child
- (5) This subsection applies to a child if—
- (a) a parent of the child has previously made a notification in the prescribed manner for the child’s details to be entered on a home education register maintained by a local authority, and the notification (or the most recent such notification) did not succeed, or
- (b) the child’s details have previously been registered on a home education register maintained by a local authority, and the registration (or the most recent such registration) has been revoked under section 19F.
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[edit | edit source]Children Schools and Families Bill
Explanatory notes for Amendments
Amendments to Section 19B of Schedule 1
Amendments to Section 19C of Schedule 1
Amendments to Section 19D of Schedule 1
Amendments to Section 19E of Schedule 1
Amendments to Section 19F of Schedule 1
Amendments to Section 19G of Schedule 1
Amendments to Section 19H of Schedule 1
Amendments to Section 19I of Schedule 1
Proposed new Section 19J of Schedule 1
Amendments to Section 437 of EA 1996
Amendments to Section 442 of EA 1996
Amendments to Section 443 of EA 1996