Provision of statistical information
8.—(1) The governing body of every county, voluntary and maintained special school (other than a special school established in a hospital) shall make available to the education authority not later than 30th June in each year such particulars of the educational provision made in the school in that school year in respect of pupils in each year group as are referred to in paragraph (3).
(2) The head teacher of every county, voluntary and maintained special school (other than a special school established in a hospital) shall make available to the governing body of the school not later than 30th June in each year such particulars of the educational provision which is intended to be made in the school in the next following school year in respect of pupils in each year group as are referred to in paragraph (3).
(3) The particulars referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) are:
(a)the subjects or courses taught;
(b)the number of hours per week each subject or course is taught;
(c)the length of each course in weeks, a course lasting the whole school year being taken to last 38 weeks;
(d)the number of cycles for each course, that number being:
(i)for a course lasting the whole school year, 1; and
(ii)for a course which consists of parts each lasting less than the whole school year (whether described as a modular course or a rotational course or otherwise), the number of such parts taken in the school year;
(e)(i)the total number of hours for which each subject or course is taught in the school year (differentiated to show the number of hours common to all pupils in the year group and the number of hours of additional teaching for particular groups of pupils);
(ii)for those subjects or courses common to the whole year group, the time spent in each year on objectives relating to particular subject areas and cross-curricular themes; and
(iii)an indication of such objectives relating to those subjects or courses not common to the whole year group.
(f)the number of pupils (given both as a total and differentiated by gender) studying the subject or following the course, as the case may be;
(g)the number of groups (if any) into which the total number referred to in sub-paragraph (f) is divided; and
(h)the grouping criteria determining the groups referred to in sub-paragraph (g), that is to say, whether they are of mixed ability, differentiated by ability, differentiated by gender, or determined in some other way.
(4) A governing body to which particulars are supplied under paragraph (2) shall make them available, on request, to the education authority and the Secretary of State.
(5) The governing body of every county, voluntary and maintained special school (other than a special school established in a hospital) shall make available to the education authority not later than 30th June in each year particulars of the numbers of pupils of compulsory school age in the school in that school year in respect of whom–
(a)a statement of special educational needs is not maintained and for whom the National Curriculum has been modified or disapplied in whole or in part during that year; and
(b)a statement of special educational needs is maintained, indicating whether the National Curriculum is not subject to exceptions or is modified or disapplied in whole or in part during that year,
specifying in either case the foundation subjects so modified or disapplied.