The Education (Pupil Exclusions and Appeals) (Pupil Referral Units) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Amendments to regulation 6 of the 2003 PRU Regulations

5.—(1) Regulation 6 (exclusion of pupils: provision of information to the local authority and the National Assembly for Wales) of the 2003 PRU Regulations is amended as follows.

(2) In the heading, for “National Assembly for Wales” substitute “Welsh Ministers”.

(3) In paragraph (1)—

(a) for “teacher in charge” substitute “management committee”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (b) insert—

“(ba) where the excluded pupil has or may have additional learning needs, whether the governing body or the local authority is, or was at the time of the exclusion—

(i) determining whether the pupil has additional learning needs,

(ii) preparing an individual development plan for the pupil, or

(iii) maintaining an individual development plan for the pupil,

in accordance with Part 2 of the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018(1);”.

(4) For paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) A local authority must provide to the Welsh Ministers at their request any information the local authority has received from a teacher in charge under regulation 5(3) or 5(5) or from a management committee under regulation 6(1).”

(1)

2018 anaw 2.