Explanatory note

These Regulations make provision about the supply of information about children receiving education which is funded by a local authority outside mainstream schools, usually referred to as 'alternative provision'. Alternative provision includes education other than at school, education at an independent school or at a pupil referral unit. Under regulations 4 and 5 the providers of such education must supply information about individual children to the Welsh Ministers and the local authority which is funding the education when requested. Schedule 1 sets out the items of individual information to be supplied.

Regulation 6 allows the Welsh Ministers to require a relevant local authority, which has received information about individual children pursuant to these Regulations, to pass such information to the Careers Wales companies. Regulation 7 sets out the persons (in addition to information collators) to whom the Welsh Ministers may supply information about individual children. Regulation 8 sets out the persons (in addition to the Welsh Ministers, other information collators and the providers of the alternative provision) to whom an information collator may supply individual information.

Regulation 9 makes provision about the report a teacher in charge of a pupil referral unit and a proprietor of an independent school is required to send each school year to parents of children receiving alternative provision. Schedule 2 sets out the information to be included in the reports.