The Single Education Plan (Wales) Regulations 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 29 of the Education Act 1996 (the 1996 Act), requires a Local Education Authority (the authority) to provide information to the National Assembly for Wales (the National Assembly).

Section 26 of the Children Act 2004 (the 2004 Act), provides that the National Assembly can require by Regulations a children’s services authority in Wales, from time to time to prepare and publish a plan setting out the authority’s strategy for discharging their functions in relation to children and relevant young persons.

These Regulations are made under sections 29(3), (5) and 569 of the 1996 Act and 26 of the 2004 Act, and revoke and replace the following Regulations:—

• The Local Education Authority (Behaviour Support Plans) Regulations 1998;

• The Local Education Authority (Behaviour Support Plans) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001;

• The Education Development Plans (Wales) Regulations 2002;

• The Education (School Organisation Plans) (Wales) Regulations 2003;

• The Education (Nursery Education and Early Years Development and Childcare Plans) (Wales) Regulations 2003, regulations 5 to 7 and the Schedule;

• The Education Development Plans (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2005.

These Regulations provide for the following matters:—

• The requirement for an authority to prepare and publish a Single Education Plan (regulation 3);

• The content of a Single Education Plan (regulation 4 and Schedules 2 and 3);

• The duration of a Single Education Plan (regulation 5);

• The persons and bodies whom an authority is required to consult when preparing a Single Education Plan, and the manner in which they are required to carry out that consultation (regulation 6);

• The date on which an authority is required to adopt a Single Education Plan (regulation 7);

• The date on which an authority is required to publish a Single Education Plan (regulation 8);

• The revision of Targets for attainment, attendance and exclusion (regulation 9 and Part 3 of Schedule 2);

• The revision of Supporting Information (regulation 10 and Schedule 3);

• The manner in which the authority is required to publish documents (regulation 11);

• The persons to whom an authority is required to provide copies of a Single Education Plan (regulation 12);

• The transitional provisions relating to section 44 of the Education Act 2005 coming into force (regulation 13).