# The Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) Regulations 1992, Regulation 3: Head teacher’s report to parents and adult pupils


(1) The head teacher of every maintained school shall each school year make available in writing to the parent of each registered pupil at the school and to each such pupil who has attained or will attain the age of 18 years before 31st August next following the end of that year a report containing—
(a) the information relating to the pupil’s educational achievements and the other information relating to him specified—
(i) as respects pupils in the final year of a key stage, in Part 1 of Schedule 1 hereto;
(ii) as respects pupils in a year of a key stage other than the final year, in Part 2 of that Schedule;
(iii) as respects pupils aged at least 17 who have taken GCE 'A' level or GCE 'AS' examinations, in Part 3 of that Schedule; and
(iv) as respects all pupils, in Part 4 of that Schedule; and
(b) in the case of a pupil at the end of a key stage or who has taken examinations for the GCSE or GCE "A' level and "AS' examinations, the information relating to the educational achievements of all other such pupils at the school and of all such pupils at schools in England whose achievements were assessed or examined (as the case may be) at the same time as the pupil's, and the other information relating to such pupils, specified in Schedule 2 hereto.
(2) The head teacher shall send the report by post or otherwise—
(a) in the case of a pupil in the final year of the first or second key stage, during the period beginning on 1st June and ending with the earlier of the end of the summer term and of 31st July;
(b) in the case of a pupil in the final year of the third or fourth key stage, subject to paragraph (3) during the period beginning with 15th June and ending with the earlier of the end of the summer term and of 31st July;
(c) in any other case, subject to paragraph (3) at any time before the earlier of the end of the summer term and of 31st July:
Provided that the period to which the report relates shall in all cases begin with the end of the period to which the report last made pursuant to these Regulations or as the case may be the regulations revoked by regulation 11 related, or the pupil’s admission to the school, whichever is the later.
(3) Where the report includes the results of public examinations taken by a pupil at the end of the fourth key stage or who is over compulsory school age and not in any key stage, or of NC tests taken by a pupil at the end of the third key stage which are subject to verification by a designated body in accordance with the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for English, Mathematics, Science and Techno logy) (Key Stage 3) Order 1992, and the results are not received by the head teacher until after the earlier of the end of the summer term and of 31st July, he shall send the report as soon as practicable and in any event not later than the following 30th September.
(4) In sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) and Schedule 2 the reference to pupils at schools in England is to pupils at all such maintained schools and at such independent schools whose achievements were assessed as if the statutory arrangements applied to them or, as the case may be, who took the examinations mentioned in that sub-paragraph and that Schedule.
(5) Where the information consists of levels it shall be accompanied by a brief explanatory commentary designed to enable a parent to understand his child’s progress in the subject individually and in relation to other children in the same year of the key stage and if the levels have been determined in accordance with the statutory arrangements they shall be accompanied by a statement to that effect.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3168/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-individual-pupils-achievements-information-regulations-1992/regulation-3
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