The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2001 S.I.2001/4020. The effect of the amendment is to change some of the information schools have to provide on request.

The new requirements provide that, in relation to all pupils, the information which schools are required additionally to provide includes—

(a) the date the pupil left the school (regulation 4);

(b) the pupil’s address or part of the address (regulation 5);

(c) where the pupil has special educational needs, the SEN type ranking (regulation 6);

(d) whether the pupil has been registered or identified as belonging to the school’s Gifted and Talented cohort (regulation 7);

(e) the number of authorised and unauthorised absences from the total number of sessions held by the school (regulation 7);

(f) whether the pupil is taught in an SEN unit or in other resourced provision (regulation 7).

In relation to certain excluded pupils, there is also a change in the manner of collecting information about exclusions (regulation 8), and schools can be required (regulation 9) to provide—

(g) the exclusion start date;

(h) the type of exclusion;

(i) the reason for exclusion;

(j) the number of sessions to which the exclusion applies.