The School Governors' Annual Reports (Wales) Regulations 2011

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Education Act 1996(1);

“the 1998 Act” (“Deddf 1998”) means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(2);

“the 2002 Act” (“Deddf 2002”) means the Education Act 2002;

“annual parents' meeting” (“cyfarfod rhieni blynyddol”) means the parents meeting which the governing body is required to hold once in every school year under section 33 of the 2002 Act(3);

“budget share” (“cyfran o'r gyllideb”) means the amount allocated to the governing body by virtue of section 47 of the 1998 Act(4);

“DEWi” (“DEWi”) means the data exchange Wales initiative database maintained and published by the Welsh Ministers(5);

“foundation phase” (“cyfnod sylfaen”) is to be construed in accordance with section 102 of the 2002 Act;

“governors' report” (“adroddiad llywodraethwyr”) means the report which the governing body is required to prepare once in every school year under section 30 of the 2002 Act;

“key stage” (“cyfnod allweddol”) means any of the periods set out in paragraphs (a) to (d) of section 103(1) of the 2002 Act(6);

“language category” (“categori iaith”) means the category used for defining the type and extent of Welsh medium education provision made by a school and set out in the information document entitled “Defining schools according to Welsh medium provision” published by the Welsh Ministers as Circular 023/2007(7);

“parent” (“rhiant”) has the meaning given to it by section 576 of the 1996 Act(8);

“reporting school year” (“blwyddyn adrodd yr ysgol”) means the school year immediately preceding the school year in which the information is published by the governing body;

“Summary of Secondary School Performance” (“Crynodeb Perfformiad Ysgol Uwchradd”) means the summary of a school’s performance published by the Welsh Ministers on DEWi; and

“unauthorised absence” (“absenoldeb anawdurdodedig”) means an occasion on which a pupil is recorded as absent without authority pursuant to the Education (Pupil Registration) (Wales) Regulations 2010(9) and “authorised absence” (“absenoldeb awdurdodedig”) must be construed accordingly.

(1)

1996 c. 56.

(2)

1998 c. 31.

(3)

Sub-section (1) was amended by the Education Act 2005 (c. 18), section 103(2)(a).

(4)

Sub-section (1) was amended by the Education Act 2005, Schedule 16, paragraphs 6(1), (2)(a) and (b). Sub-section (2) was amended by the Education Act 2005, Schedule 16, paragraph 6(1), (3)(a), (b), (c) and (d) and by S.I. 2010/1158. Sub-section (2A) was inserted by the Education Act 2005, Schedule 16, paragraph 6(1) and (4).

(5)

The website for DEWi is www.dataexchangewales.org.uk.

(6)

Section 103(1)(a) was repealed by section 26(3) of the Education (Wales) Measure 2009 (Nawm 5), but that repeal has not yet been commenced. Section 103(4) was amended by paragraphs 11 to 13 of the Schedule to the Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009 (Nawm 1).

(7)

ISBN No. 9780750443753.

(8)

Sub-section (1) was amended by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31), Schedule 30, paragraph 180(a) and sub-section (2) was repealed by that Act, Schedule 30, paragraph 180(2).

(9)

S.I. 2010/1954 (W.187).