The Education (Pupils' Attendance Records) Regulations 1991

Amendment of the Education (School Information) Regulations 1981

3.—(1) The Education (School Information) Regulations 1981(1) shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.

(2) After regulation 4A there shall be added the following regulation—

“4B.— (1) This regulation applies where the information relating to school attendance referred to in regulation 16 of Schedule 2 “the school attendance information”) which is published in accordance with subsection (5) of section 8 of the Act of 1980 (read with regulations 4 and 6) does not relate to the school year immediately preceding the school year in which the information is published (“the previous school year”).

(2) Where this regulation applies the persons referred to in paragraph (1) of regulation 4 shall, as soon as practicable after the school attendance information for the previous school year is made available to them, publish that information as a supplement to the school prospectus at the time and in the manner required by regulation 6.”.

(3) In paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 there shall be deleted the words “including, in particular, the practice of the school as respects corporal punishment”.

(4) At the end of Schedule 2 there shall be added the following paragraph—

“16.— (1) In relation to each year group in which all or the majority of pupils are subject to the provisions as to the recording of unauthorised absence in the Pupils' Registration Regulations 1956 (“the unauthorised absence provisions”), the number of unauthorised absences in each term of the relevant school year expressed as a percentage of the total number of possible attendances in that term.

(2) In relation to each year group referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above, the number of pupils recorded as absent without authority on one or more occasions in each term of the relevant school year expressed as a percentage of the number of registered pupils in the year group who are subject to the unauthorised absence provisions at the commencement of that term.

(3) In this paragraph—

(a) an “unauthorised absence” means an occasion on which a pupil is recorded as absent without authority pursuant to the Pupils' Registration Regula tions 1956;

(b) “the total number of possible attendances” means the number produced by multiplying the number of registered pupils in the year group at the beginning of the term who are subject to the unauthorised absence provisions by the number of school sessions in that term; and

(c) references to the relevant school year are to the last school year for which the information referred to in the paragraph was available at the date specified for the purposes of regulation 8(2).”.

(1)

S.I. 1981/630, to which there are relevant amendments in S.I. 1988/1023 and 1991/1265.