Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”). The 2007 Regulations require the governing body of any maintained school on receiving a written request from the local authority by which the school is maintained to supply within fourteen days such of the information as is requested by the authority in respect of pupils at the school.

Regulation 4 and Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Regulations prescribe the information that may be shared with persons prescribed under regulation 5(2) of the 2007 Regulations. These Regulations add new paragraphs 17 and 18 to Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Regulations so as to add to the prescribed list of individual pupil information that may be shared (regulations 2(2) and 2(4)).

Regulation 5 of the 2007 Regulations prescribes persons who may be provided with individual pupil information by the Welsh Ministers under section 537A(4) of the Education Act 1996. These Regulations insert new sub-paragraphs (e) to (h) into regulation 5(2) so as to add to the prescribed list of bodies to which individual pupil information may be provided (regulation 2(3)).