The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (Wales) Regulations 2003 and the Education (Individual Pupil Information) (Prescribed Persons) (Wales) Regulations 2004 and substantially re-enact them as amended. These Regulations require the governing body of any maintained school on receiving a written request from the local education authority by which the school is maintained to supply within fourteen days such of the information referred to in the Schedule as may be requested by the authority in respect of pupils at the school.

Regulation 5 prescribes which persons may be provided with individual pupil information by the Welsh Ministers under section 537A(4) of the Education Act 1996 and which individual pupil information may be provided by “information collators”. Applying the definition of an information collator in section 537A(9) of the Education Act 1996 to Wales, an information collator is any body which, for the purposes of or in connection with the education functions of the Welsh Ministers, is responsible for collating or checking information relating to pupils. The information which they may provide by these Regulations relates to the educational achievements of pupils in any GCE “A” level examinations, any GCE “AS” examinations, any GNVQ subjects and any course of study provided to pupils of compulsory school age in a school maintained by a local education authority leading to a qualification which is approved by the Welsh Ministers or by a body designated by the Welsh Ministers under section 99 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000.