Regulation 2 Amendment of the Education (Individual Pupil Information) (Prescribed Persons) (England) Regulations 2009

(1)

The Education (Individual Pupil Information) (Prescribed Persons) (England) Regulations 2009^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 3 (prescribed persons)—

(a)

in paragraph (5)—

(i)

omit sub-paragraph (q),

(ii)

after sub-paragraph (v), insert—

“(w)
where a school is designated under section 69(3) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998^f2 as having a religious character—

(i)
in the case of a school designated as Church of England or Roman Catholic, the appropriate diocesan authority^f3,

(ii)
in the case of a school designated as Jewish, the Jewish Studies Education Inspection Service,

(iii)
in the case of a school designated as Methodist, the Education Secretary to the Methodist Church,

(iv)
in the case of a school designated as Muslim, the Association of Muslim Schools,

(v)
in the case of a school designated as Sikh, the Network of Sikh Organisations,

(vi)
in the case of a school designated as Seventh Day Adventist, the Education Department of the British Union Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists.”

(b)

in paragraph (6) for sub-paragraph (d), substitute—

“(d)
persons who, for the purpose of promoting the education or well-being of children in England are—

(i)
conducting research or analysis,

(ii)
producing statistics, or

(iii)
providing information, advice or guidance,

and who require individual pupil information for that purpose^f4;”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2009/1563 as amended by S.I. 2010/677, 2010/1940, 2012/765, 2012/956, 2012/979 and 2013/235.
f2: 1998 c.31 (“the 1998 Act”). Section 124B of the 1998 Act applies section 69(3) to independent schools.
f3: See section 142 of the 1998 Act for the definition of “appropriate diocesan authority”.
f4: For the purposes of these Regulations, ‘well-being’ has the meaning referred to in sections 332E and 507B of the Education Act 1996 in relation to those sections. Section 332E was inserted by section 1 of the Special Educational Needs (Information) Act 2008 (c.11) and section 507B was inserted by section 6(1) of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c.40).