Equality Act 2010 Explanatory Notes

Education: paragraph 8
Effect

688.This paragraph provides an exception from the prohibition on sex discrimination in Part 3 in relation only to the establishment of a school. A local authority will not be prevented from establishing single-sex schools, but must provide similar numbers of places for boys and girls.

Background

689.This provision is designed to replicate the effect of provisions in the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

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