The Education (Information About Children in Alternative Provision) (Wales) Regulations 2009

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make provision about the supply of information about children receiving education which is funded by a local authority outside mainstream schools, usually referred to as 'alternative provision'. Alternative provision includes education other than at school, education at an independent school or at a pupil referral unit. Under regulations 4 and 5 the providers of such education must supply information about individual children to the Welsh Ministers and the local authority which is funding the education when requested. Schedule 1 sets out the items of individual information to be supplied.

Regulation 6 allows the Welsh Ministers to require a relevant local authority, which has received information about individual children pursuant to these Regulations, to pass such information to the Careers Wales companies. Regulation 7 sets out the persons (in addition to information collators) to whom the Welsh Ministers may supply information about individual children. Regulation 8 sets out the persons (in addition to the Welsh Ministers, other information collators and the providers of the alternative provision) to whom an information collator may supply individual information.

Regulation 9 makes provision about the report a teacher in charge of a pupil referral unit and a proprietor of an independent school is required to send each school year to parents of children receiving alternative provision. Schedule 2 sets out the information to be included in the reports.