Regulation 13 Targets

The material referred to in regulation 12 includes a table showing–

(a)

the targets for the school year beginning in 1999 which the governing body of each school maintained by the authority have set by virtue of regulation 3 or 4 (or, as the case may be, both) of the 1998 Regulations, and

(b)

the local education authority’s target for the number of persons who are children in the final year of compulsory education or young persons over compulsory school age but under the age of 18 leaving public care in their area, in each of the school years beginning in 1999, 2000 and 2001 respectively, per 100 such persons, who are to have achieved grade A* to G in one or more subjects in GCSE examinations or a vocational qualification.

(2)

In this regulation, “children leaving public care” means–

(a)

any children for whom the local education authority provided, in accordance with section 20 of the Children Act 1989^f1, and for whom they no longer so provide, and

(b)

any children who were the subject of a care order or a supervision order within the meaning of section 31 of the Children Act 1989 and who are no longer so subject

and a child shall be regarded as leaving public care in the school year in which the authority first cease so to provide or in which he first ceases to be so subject, as the case may be.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1989 c. 41.