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Paragraph 7 GCSE and approved qualifications targets for looked after children

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(1)

The following targets in connection with the performance of the relevant group of persons aged 15 who will have been looked after by the local authority for a continual period of 12 months or more by the end of the school year—

(a)

the percentage of such persons who are expected not to achieve, by the end of the school year, a graded result at GCSE or equivalent; and

(b)

the percentage of such persons who are expected to achieve the level 2 threshold in approved qualifications by the end of the school year.

(2)

In this paragraph, “the relevant group of persons aged 15” means all persons who the local education authority anticipates will have attained the age of 15 by the start of the school year.