PART IVPUBLICATION OF INFORMATION
Publication of local and national performance information about secondary schools by governing bodies
10.—(1) The governing body of every maintained secondary school (except a middle deemed secondary school) shall provide the information referred to in paragraph (2) in the form and manner and to the persons specified in paragraph (3).
(2) That information is information for the reporting school year provided to the Secretary of State under these Regulations or (in the case of average figures) calculated by him from such information and published by him under section 16(6) of the Education (Schools) Act 1992 consisting of—
(a)the results in public examinations and courses leading to vocational qualifications or units achieved by pupils at secondary schools in the area of the relevant authority;
(b)the rates of unauthorised absence of pupils at secondary schools in the area of the relevant authority;
(c)the information referred to in Schedule 4 relating to secondary schools in the area of the relevant authority; and
(d)the average results in public examinations and courses leading to vocational qualifications or units and of rates of unauthorised absence for pupils at secondary schools in the area of the relevant authority and in England.
(3) The information shall be provided by copies of the document in which the information was published by the Secretary of State being made available at the school for reference by parents and other persons.
(4) The governing body of every maintained primary school providing education for pupils in the final year of the second key stage and every maintained middle deemed secondary school shall provide the information referred to in paragraph (2) by distributing the document without charge to parents of pupils who are in their final year at the school before transfer to a secondary school and by making copies of the document available at the school for reference by parents and other persons.