The Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for English, Mathematics, Science, Technology, History and Geography) (Key Stage 1) Order 1992

Pupils' absence — incomplete SATs

11.—(1) Where a pupil is unable to complete a SAT due to his absence from school (whether because of illness or for any other reason)—

(a) if in the opinion of his head teacher he has done sufficient work on the SAT to enable an assessment of his level of attainment in any attainment targets to be made, any such assessment shall be treated as an assessment made in pursuance of article 5;

(b) if in the opinion of his head teacher he has not done sufficient work as aforesaid, the levels of attainment determined by the teacher assessment shall be the levels for the purposes of article 7 unless the local education authority (in the case of a pupil at a school which the authority maintain) or SEAC (in the case of a pupil at a grant-maintained school) disagree, in which case the levels of attainment shall be such as the local education authority or SEAC determine by reference to the work the pupil has done on the SAT in question.

(2) The head teacher shall notify the local education authority or SEAC (as the case may be) of any case such as is mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) and furnish to it such information as it may reasonably require for the purpose of exercising its functions under that sub-paragraph.