The Education (Individual Performance Information) (Prescribed Bodies and Persons) Regulations 1997

Interpretation

3.—(1) For the purposes of section 537A(3) of the Act, the Secretary of State hereby prescribes as a body or person to whom he may provide individual performance information received by him by virtue of subsection (1)(1) of that section—

(a) any body referred to in paragraph (3) below; and

(b) any body or person, as the case may be, falling within the category referred to in paragraph (4) below.

(2) For the purposes of section 537A(4)(b) of the Act, the Secretary of State hereby prescribes that—

(a) a body to which a body collating or checking performance information may provide individual performance information is any of the bodies referred to in paragraph (3) below; and

(b) the individual performance information which a body collating or checking performance information may so provide, at such times as the Secretary of State may determine, is any such information received by it under section 537A(4) relating to the performance of individual pupils in any National Curriculum assessments of pupils at or near the end of the final year of the first, second or third key stage.

(3) The bodies referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) and (2)(a) above are—

(a) the relevant local education authority;

(b) the Office for Standards in Education(2);

(c) the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority(3);

(d) the Funding Agency for Schools(4);

(e) the Teacher Training Agency(5);

(4) The category referred to in paragraph (1)(b) above is the category of bodies and persons conducting research into the educational achievements of pupils and who require individual performance information for that purpose.

(1)

See S.I. 1997/2060 and 1997/2364, which amend the Education (School Performance) (England) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2577). The effect of these Regulations is to allow the Secretary of State to require the provision of individual performance information to him which relates to: (a) the General Certificate of Secondary Education and General National Vocational Qualifications for pupils aged 15; (b) General Certificate of Education advanced level examinations and General Certificate of Education advanced supplementary examinations for pupils aged 16, 17 or 18; and (c) National Curriculum assessment results for pupils at the second key stage.

(2)

The Office for Standards in Education is the non-ministerial government department which serves Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in England.

(3)

The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority was established under section 21(1) of the Education Act 1997 (c. 44).

(4)

The Funding Agency for Schools was established under section 3 of the Education Act 1993, which Act was repealed by Part I of Schedule 38 to the Education Act 1996. Section 20 of this Act provides for the continued existence of the Funding Agency for Schools.

(5)

The Teacher Training Agency was established under section 1(1) of the Education Act 1994 (c. 30).