Explanatory note

These Regulations revoke and replace the Education (Individual Performance Infor mation) (Prescribed Bodies and Persons) Regulations 1997. They also revoke the Education (Individual Performance Information)(Identification of Individual Pupils) Regulations 1998.

They prescribe which persons may be provided with “individual pupil information” under section 537A(4) and (5) of the Education Act 1996 (regulation 3).

These Regulations also prescribe which individual pupil information may be provided by “information collators”. An “information collator” is defined by section 537A(9) to mean “anybody which, for the purposes of or in connection with the functions of the Secretary of State relating to education, 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 National Curriculum assessment of pupils at or near the end of the final year of the first, second or third key state, any GCSE subjects, 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 Secretary of State under section 400 of the Education Act 1996 (regulation 3(3)).