# The Education (Local Education Authority Performance Targets) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2006, Note: 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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3150/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-local-education-authority-performance-targets-england-amendment-regulations-2006/note
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