Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Local Education Authority Performance Targets) (England) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2450) (“the principal Regulations”).

The principal amendments will―

(a)

require targets to be set for the proportion of pupils aged 15 to achieve the level 2 threshold in approved external qualifications including grades A* - C in GCSE English and Mathematics (regulation 4);

(b)

require separate targets to be set in connection with―

(i)

those pupils aged 15 who will have been looked after by the local authority for a continual period of 12 months by the end of the relevant school year (regulation 5); and

(ii)

those pupils within an ethnic group where there are more than 30 pupils within the relevant group (by virtue of paragraph 4 of the Schedule to the principal Regulations and the amendments made by regulation 4 of these regulations).

Some consequential drafting amendments are made (regulation 3).