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1.These Explanatory Notes relate to the Education (Wales) Measure 2011 as passed by the National Assembly for Wales on 29 March 2011 and approved by Her Majesty in Council on 10 May 2011.
2.The Welsh Assembly Government’s Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills has prepared them in order to assist the reader of the Measure. They do not form part of the Measure and have not been endorsed by the National Assembly for Wales.
3.The Explanatory Notes should be read in conjunction with the Measure. They are not, and are not meant to be, a comprehensive description of the Measure. So where a section or part of a section is self-explanatory, no further explanation or comment is provided.
4.The Measure makes provision about:
collaboration between local authorities, governing bodies of maintained schools and Further Education Institutions (“FEIs”);
giving local authorities a power to establish a federation of schools;
the training of school governors and improvements to the clerking of governing bodies;
preventing schools in the future from changing category so as to become foundation schools and to prevent new foundation schools being established.
5.In respect of powers to require collaboration between local authorities, school governing bodies and governing bodies of FEIs, the National Assembly for Wales (“the Assembly”) has the competence under Matters 5.2B, 5.2C, 5.12 and 5.13 contained in Field 6 of Part 1 of Schedule 5 to the Government of Wales Act 2006. For school governance, competence is under Matter 5.2A. In respect of the provisions preventing maintained schools changing category to become foundation schools and preventing the establishment of new foundation schools, the Assembly has the competence to make a Measure that would allow provisions around the category of 'foundation schools' under matters 5.1 and 5.2.
Part 1: Collaboration by education bodies
Section 1 – Education bodies
6.Part 1 of the Measure confers functions on education bodies in connection with arrangements to collaborate. This section defines as education bodies, a local authority, the governing body of a maintained school, a further education corporation, and a further education institution which is designated under section 28(4) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.
Section 2 - The collaboration objective
7.This section sets out the objective of Part 1 of the Measure, which is to secure the effective and efficient use of public resources in relation to education and training up to the age of 19 (“the collaboration objective”).
Section 3 - Duty of education body to collaborate
8.Subsection (1) places a duty on an education body to consider from time to time, when exercising its other functions, whether the exercise of its powers of collaboration would further the collaboration objective. A local authority’s other functions consist only of its education functions (see the definition of “functions” in section 8). If it considers that collaborating would further the objective, the education body must seek to exercise its powers of collaboration (subsection (2)).
9.Subsection (3) limits the duty to consider collaboration imposed on further education institutions to the provision of education for those up to 19.
Section 4 - Meaning of ‘powers of collaboration’
10.Section 4 defines the meaning of ‘powers of collaboration’. For all education bodies these are the powers in section 5 and for local authorities these also include powers in other legislation.
Section 5 - Powers to collaborate
11.This section confers on education bodies broad powers to enable them to collaborate for the purpose of discharging or facilitating the discharge of their duties under section 3 of the Measure, section 33K of the Learning and Skills Act 2000, section 116J of the Education Act 2002, or the duty of another education body under those provisions. Section 33K of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 and section 116J of the Education Act 2002 impose duties to collaborate in connection with the delivery of the local curriculum.
12.Section 5 allows an education body to collaborate with another education body to facilitate the discharge of that other education body’s duties, whether or not that would facilitate the discharge of its own duties.
13.The powers to collaborate include powers to delegate functions and to arrange for joint committees to carry out their functions.
14.Whilst the Measure confers the same powers on all types of education body covered by the Measure, it does not empower or compel other bodies to collaborate with an education body. However, such bodies may be able to do so under their existing powers.
15.Subsection (3) provides that these new powers do not affect any education body’s powers in any other legislation and that they are limited by any provision which may be made in regulations under section 6.
Section 6 - Regulations about the power to collaborate
16.Subsection (1) provides a power for the Welsh Ministers to make further provision by way of regulations about the power to collaborate. Regulations under this subsection could, for example, set out the functions that an education body cannot delegate to another body or to a joint committee.
17.Subsection (2) provides that regulations may make particular provision about the constitution and procedure of joint committees of the collaborating education bodies, and other connected matters.
18.Subsections (3) and (4) provide that regulations may modify any legislation relating to the functions of the collaborating education bodies, where those functions are delegated, or relating to the bodies by whom those functions are to be discharged, in its application to those functions or bodies. Legislation may need to be modified in order to reflect the fact that another body or a joint committee may in fact be carrying out a particular function (in the place of, or as well as the education body on whom the function is conferred).
Section 7 – Guidance
19.1Section 7 allows the Welsh Ministers to issue guidance about collaboration to which education bodies must have regard.
Section 8 – Interpretation of this Part
20.This section defines terms used in Part 1 of the Measure.
Section 9 - Minor and consequential amendments
21.Section 9 repeals, in so far as they apply in relation to Wales, section 26 of the Education Act 2002 and section 166 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006. Those sections made provision for regulations to be made allowing for collaboration between schools and for collaboration between further education bodies and between schools and further education bodies. The sections are now replaced, for Wales, by the provisions of Part 1 of the Measure, which impose duties in relation to collaboration. Section 9 also makes other consequential amendments.
Part 3: Foundation Schools.Foundation schools
Section 26 - Prohibition of establishment of new foundation schools
54.Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (“the 1998 Act”) makes provision about the establishment, alteration and discontinuance of maintained schools in Wales. Section 28 of, and Schedule 6 to, the 1998 Act make provision about proposals for the establishment and alteration of community, foundation, voluntary schools and maintained nursery schools, and the implementation of those proposals. This section amends section 28 of, and Schedule 6 to, the 1998 Act by removing the ability of local authorities or other promoters to propose the establishment of a new foundation school in Wales. This section also amends section 113A of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 to remove the ability of the Welsh Ministers to propose the establishment of a foundation school for pupils over the age of 16.
Section 27 - Prohibition of change of category to foundation school
55.Schedule 8 to the 1998 Act makes provision enabling schools in Wales to change categories. This section amends Schedule 8 to the 1998 Act so as to remove the ability of a local authority or a governing body to propose that a school change its category so as to become a foundation school. This will not prevent a school which is currently a foundation school changing category so as to become a different category.
Section 30 - Supplementary powers
58.This section allows the Welsh Ministers to make provision by order which they consider necessary or expedient to give full effect to sections 25 to 28. An order made by the Welsh Ministers under this power may, among other things, amend or revoke subordinate legislation.
Section 31 - General interpretation
59.Subsection (1) defines terms used in the Measure. Subsection (2) provides that the Measure is to be read as one with the Education Act 1996. This means that the definitions in that Act are to be read across into this Measure, and the general provisions in that Act apply to the Measure. For example the “education functions” of a local authority are set out in Schedule 36A to the Education Act 1996, and that definition therefore applies to the term when used in this Measure. The definitions set out in the Measure take precedence over any used in the Education Act 1996 if there is a difference in meaning (subsection (3)).
Section 32 - Orders and regulations
60.This section provides for orders and regulations under the Measure to be made by statutory instrument and sets out the Assembly procedures in respect of these instruments.
Section 33 – Commencement
61.This section makes provision about commencement. Sections 25 to 33 come into force two months after the Measure is approved by Her Majesty in Council. The other provisions of the Measure will be brought into force by order made by the Welsh Ministers.
Section 34 - Short title and inclusion of Measure within the Education Acts
62.Subsection (1) provides that the title of this Measure is the Education (Wales) Measure 2011. This Measure is to be included in the list of Education Acts set out in section 578 of the Education Act 1996 (subsection (2)). Any reference in legislation to “the Education Acts” will include a reference to this Measure.
63.The following table sets out the dates for each stage of the Measure’s passage through the National Assembly for Wales. The Record of Proceedings and further information on the passage of this Measure can be found on the National Assembly for Wales’ website at: http://www.assemblywales.org/bus-home/bus-legislation/bus-leg-measures/proposed_education_wales_measure_2011.htm
Introduced 6 December 2010
Stage 1 - Debate 12 January 2011, 19 January 2011 (Private Session)
Stage 2 Scrutiny Committee – consideration of amendments 1 February 2011
Stage 3 Plenary - consideration of amendments 2 March 2011
Stage 4 Approved by the Assembly 29 March 2011