Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Education (School Information) (Wales) Regulations 1995. The main changes are as follows.

The Regulations define the National Curriculum scale without reference to the number of levels of attainment in that scale (regulation 2). They require LEA maintained schools to publish annually, with the governors' report, dates of school terms and a summary of changes in the prospectus. This brings the requirements into line with those for grant-maintained schools (regulation 3). They also require the prospectuses of secondary schools to contain details of unauthorised absences. Previously this only applied to primary schools (regulation 4).

The Regulations require prospectuses to contain details of sporting aims and provision and extend the information to be included about the results of assessment of pupils at key stages 1, 2 and 3 as well as at GCSE, A level, GNVQ and NVQ level 3. They require publication of certain all-Wales assessment results and details of the percentage of pupils leaving school without any recognised qualifications. They also require a school’s prospectus to include particulars of any targets which the governors may have set for improvement against pupils' previous performance (regulation 5).