The Education in Multiple Settings (Wales) Regulations 2022

Pupils registered at more than 1 maintained school

3.—(1) This regulation applies where a pupil is a registered pupil at more than 1 maintained school.

(2) The appropriate local authority must prepare a plan which sets out—

(a) how it will secure the teaching and learning to be provided for the pupil in the maintained school curriculum at each school,

(b) how the assessment arrangements will apply to the pupil at each school, and

(c) the arrangements for reporting pursuant to the Provision of Information by Head Teachers to Parents and Adult Pupils (Wales) Regulations 2022(1).

(3) In preparing the plan, or the revised plan, the appropriate local authority must consult with—

(a) the head teacher and governing body of each maintained school, and

(b) any other local authority that maintains a school at which the pupil is registered.

(4) The plan is to begin on the date the pupil becomes a registered pupil at more than 1 maintained school or as soon as possible after that date.

(5) The duration of the first plan and of any subsequent plan must be no more than 1 school year.

(6) When a curriculum is revised following a review under section 12 of the 2021 Act the head teacher of the school must provide a summary of the revised curriculum to the appropriate local authority as soon as possible following the completion of that review.

(7) The appropriate local authority must keep the plan under review and revise it—

(a) if the curriculum is reviewed and revised under section 12 of the 2021 Act, or

(b) if it considers it appropriate to do so at any time.

(8) The appropriate local authority must ensure a copy of the plan is provided to—

(a) the pupil on request by the pupil, and

(b) the parents of the pupil on request by the parents.

(9) Paragraph (8)(a) does not apply if the appropriate local authority considers that the pupil in question does not have the capacity to understand the information that would be given.

(10) Before determining the pupil in question does not have the capacity to understand the information that would be given under paragraph (8)(a) the appropriate local authority must consult with—

(a) the head teacher and governing body of each of the maintained schools, and

(b) any other local authority that maintains a school at which the pupil is registered.

(1)

S.I. 2022/655 (W. 145).