You are looking at an archived page; these regulations have been superseded by School Governance (Federations) (England) Regulations 2007 (SI2007/960).

These Regulations will come into force 30 August 2004 and allow all categories of maintained school – nursery, community, voluntary controlled, voluntary aided, foundation, community special and foundation special - to federate under one governing body, subject to the procedures stated in the Regulations. The Regulations replace previous versions which did not include voluntary aided and foundation schools.

The Regulations apply to between two and five schools – governing bodies wishing to become members of larger statutory governance federations would need to ask the DfES about special arrangements.

Less formal collaborations are not affected by these Regulations.

You can find the Guidance on GovernorNet, and the Regulations are available to download on the HMSO website.