Citation

1. This Order may be cited as The Designation of Schools having a Religious Character (England) Order 2011.

Designation of schools

2. The schools listed in column (1) of the Schedule (all of which are voluntary schools, or are new schools that have temporary governing bodies and which will be voluntary schools when established) are hereby designated as schools having a religious character.

3. In relation to each designated school, the religion or religious denomination (or, as the case may be, each such religion or religious denomination) in accordance with whose tenets religious education is, or may be, required to be provided at the school is listed in column (3) of the Schedule.

Regulations 2 and 3

SCHEDULESchools having a religious character

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the voluntary schools named in the Order as having a religious character in accordance with section 69(3) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 ("the Act").

Designation as a school which has a religious character is relevant for a number of purposes under the Act, notably:

(a)as part of the mechanism for determining the form of religious education to be provided under Schedule 19 to the Act;

(b)as part of the mechanism for determining the form of collective worship to be provided under Schedule 20 to the Act;

(c)as part of the mechanism for determining school staffing matters under sections 58 to 60 of the Act.