# The Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Wales) Regulations 1992, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
These Regulations, which apply only to schools in Wales, made under the Education Reform Act 1988 (“the Act”) revoke and re-enact with amendments, the provisions of the Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1381). They 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, together with information about the pupil’s attendance at school and the pupil’s general progress. Parents must also be given details of the arrangements for discussing a pupil’s report with his teachers.
For all pupils assessed under statutory arrangements by an order under section 4 of the Act at the end of a final year of a key stage (7 year olds, 11 year olds, 14 year olds and 16 year olds), information is to be given about the pupil’s level of attainment by profile component and subject together with comparative school information (regulation 4(1)(a) and (b)). For all pupils who are in a year other than the final year of a key stage, brief particulars are to be given of a pupil’s achievements in subjects and activities studied as part of the national curriculum (regulation 4(1)(c)). Details of subjects in which the pupil has been awarded a GCSE certificate together with comparative information about the GCSE examination are to be given (regulation 4(1)(d)). The subjects entered by the pupil for A/AS level examinations and the grades achieved together with the student’s overall points score (regulation 4(1)(e)) are to be given.
For all pupils (including those over compulsory school age) brief particulars are to be given of their achievements in subjects which are not part of the national curriculum and of the pupil’s general progress (regulation 4(1)(f)(i)); for all pupils within a key stage details of their attendance record during the year are to be given (regulation 4(1)(f)(ii)) and for all pupils (including those over compulsory school age) details are to be given of the arrangements by which the information to be given under these Regulations is to be discussed with teachers at the school (regulation 4(1)(f)(iii)).
If a pupil has been excepted from any National Curriculum attainment target the head teacher is required to provide that information (regulation 4(1)(a)(iv) and (3)).
The 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 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)).
The head teacher is 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).
In reporting on a pupil’s general progress, the head teacher may exclude certain confidential information. This information is set out in regulation 7.
Regulation 8 provides for the translation of documents which are to be published or made available for public inspection under these Regulations.
Minor amendments are made to regulation 9(a) of the the Education (School Records) Regulations 1989 by regulation 9 of these Regulations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1205/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-individual-pupils-achievements-information-wales-regulations-1992/note
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