The Pupil Referral Units (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) (England) Regulations 2012

Section 19 of the Education Act 1996 (“EA 1996”) requires local authorities (LAs) to make arrangements for the provision of suitable education at school or otherwise than at school for those children of compulsory school age who, by reason of illness, exclusion from school or otherwise may not for any period receive suitable education unless such arrangements are made for them. Any school established and maintained by a local authority which is specially organised to provide education for such children is known as a pupil referral unit (“a unit” – see section 19(2B) of EA 1996). Paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to EA 1996 provides for adaptations and modifications of the application of enactments to units. Paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to EA 1996 provides that regulations may make provision for the delegation of LA functions, or for the prohibition of delegation of LA functions, to units’ management committees (MCs).