Part 1: Main Provisions Section 38 and Schedule 17: Temporary continuity: education, training and childcare Part 1 - England and Wales
The section and Schedule give the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers the power to make directions in connection with the running of the education and registered childcare systems in England and Wales.
	It allows the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers to direct that relevant institutions (which include registered childcare providers, schools, 16-19 academies and further and higher education providers) stay open or re-open and admit specified persons for the purposes of the receipt of education, training, childcare or ancillary services or facilities. It also allows a direction that other reasonable steps are taken for those purposes.
	The Secretary of State may authorise a Local Authority to issue a temporary continuity direction in relation to a registered childcare provider, a school or 16-19 academy in its area, in England, and may authorise the Office for Students to issue a temporary continuity direction in relation to a higher education provider in England. The Welsh Ministers have similar powers in relation to Wales.
	The section further allows the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers, by notice, to disapply and modify, for a maximum period of one month, certain specified legislative requirements or restrictions relating to education or childcare, and any similar provision found in academy arrangements as applicable. Any such notice must be published, and other reasonable steps must be taken to bring the notice to the attention of those affected by it.