Part 1: Children Chapter 1: Looked after children Section 6: Academies: staff member for looked after and previously looked after pupils
This section inserts a new section 2E into the Academies Act 2010. Together, subsections (1) and (2) of 2E impose provision in all existing and new academy agreements which requires the proprietor of an academy to designate a member of staff (‘the designated person’) to have responsibility for promoting the educational achievement of ‘relevant pupils’, and to ensure the designated person undertakes training and has regard to any guidance issued by the Secretary of State.
	Subsection (3) gives the Secretary of State the power to make regulations to require an academy agreement to prescribe the necessary qualifications or experience of the designated person and to require the designated person to have regard to guidance issued by the Secretary of State in relation to such qualifications and experience. Subsection (6) stipulates that any regulations which modify existing academy agreements so as to prescribe qualifications or experience will be subject to the affirmative procedure.
	‘A relevant pupil’ is defined in subsection (4) as a registered pupil at the Academy or, in respect of a 16 to 19 Academy, a person receiving education there, and who is looked after by the local authority (as defined by the Children Act 1989) or who is no longer looked after as a result of an adoption order, a special guardianship order or child arrangements order, and children who appear to the proprietor to have been adopted from state care outside England and Wales. Subsection (5) confirms that the term "looked after" has the same meaning as it does in the Children Act 1989.