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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-individual-pupils-achievements-information-regulations-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1381",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-individual-pupils-achievements-information-regulations-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, made under section 22 of the Education Reform Act 1988 (“the Act”), require head teachers of schools maintained by local education authorities and of grant-maintained schools to provide information about individual pupils' educational achievements to parents of the pupils, including pupils over compulsory school age.\nIf a pupil is in the final year of a key stage in a foundation subject of the National Curriculum for which attainment targets and programmes of study have been specified by an order made under section 4, the information consists of the summary results of any assessment of the pupil in that subject in accordance with assessment arrangements specified by an order made under section 4 of the Act (regulation 4(1)(a)), together with brief particulars of his achievements in any foundation subject which is required to be taught to him for a reasonable time and in any other subject or activity forming part of the school curriculum (regulation 4(1)(c)).\nIf the pupil is in another year of a key stage of a foundation subject for which attainment targets and programmes of study have been specified, or if he is required to be taught a foundation subject for a reasonable time, the information consists of brief particulars of the pupil’s achievements in those subjects, and of his achievements in other school subjects and activities, including the results of any public examinations he or she has taken (regulation 4(1)(b) and (c) and (2)).\nIf a pupil has been excepted from any National Curriculum attainment target the head teacher is required to provide that information (regulation 4(1)(a)(iii) and (3)).\nIn the case of pupils over compulsory school age the information consists of brief particulars of his achievements in school subjects and activities and any public examination results (regulation 4(1)(d) and (2)).\nThe information must be sent to parents by 31st July (regulation 5(1)) except for pupils at the end of key stage 4 or over compulsory school age in which case the relevant date is 30th September (regulation 5(3)). If the head teacher receives public examination results after 31st July he must send these to parents as soon as reasonably practicable (regulation 5(2)).\nThe head teacher is required to provide, on request by a parent, details of a pupil’s level of attainment for each attainment target where the pupil has been assessed in accordance with arrangements specified by a section 4 order (regulation 6).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1381/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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