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The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2025

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2025-12-15
State In force
Department King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
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Made: 15th December 2025

Coming into force: 1st April 2026

The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 269(4) of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009[^f00001].

Citation

1

This Order may be cited as the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2025.

Provision coming into force on 1st April 2026

2

Section 246 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (recording and reporting the use of force in schools: England) comes into force on 1st April 2026.

Signed

Olivia Bailey — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — Department for Education — 15th December 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Explanatory Note

This Order brings section 246 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 into force on 1st April 2026.

Section 246 inserts a new section 93A into the Education and Inspections Act 2006. The inserted section 93A requires the governing body of each school in England to ensure that their school has a procedure for recording significant incidents of the use of force on pupils by members of staff, and for reporting those incidents to the parents of pupils involved (unless informing a parent would put the pupil at risk).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2009 c. 22. There is an amendment to section 269 that is not relevant to this Order.

[^f00002]: As amended by S.I. 2011/882.

[^f00003]: As amended by S.I. 2010/1891.

[^f00004]: As amended by S.I. 2010/1891.

[^f00005]: As amended by S.I. 2011/882.

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