3.7.3 Music Tuition |
This is a new chapter for April 2010.
Section 451(2) of the Education Act 1996 contains the general prohibition on charging for education provided at a maintained school during school hours. These Regulations, made under section 451(3), provide that a charge may be made in respect of tuition in singing or in playing a musical instrument, if it is provided at the request of a pupil’s parent and is provided to individual pupils or to groups of two or more pupils. No charge may be made in respect of a pupil who is a looked after child within the meaning of section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989.
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