Explanatory note

These Regulations, made under Sections 22 and 232(5) and (6) of the Education Reform Act 1988 and Sections 16 and 19(3) of the Education Reform Act 1992 apply to schools in Wales (regulation 1)

Regulation 2 revokes the previous Regulations, The Education (School Performance Information) (Wales) Regulations 1992^f1.

• Regulation 3 contains interpretation provisions.

• Regulation 4 describes the way in which examination results should be determined for the purposes of Schedules 1 and 2 to the Regulations, including the method of calculating points for GCE ‘A’ level and GCE ‘AS’ level examinations.

• Regulation 6 imposes duties on head teachers to provide specified information to governing bodies of maintained secondary schools. This information is set out in Schedules 1 and 2 to the Regulations.

• Regulation 7 imposes duties on governing bodies of maintained secondary schools and special schools and proprietors of non-maintained special schools and independent schools with children over the age of 14 to provide background information relating to their school to the Secretary of State.

• Regulation 8 requires the governing bodies and proprietors referred to in regulation 7 to provide specified information to the Secretary of State about examination results of pupils registered at their school in particular the results of GCSE and GCE examinations. Summary information about the examination results must also be provided. The information to be provided is set out in Schedule 1 to the Regulations.

• Regulation 9 requires the governing bodies and proprietors referred to in regulation 7 to provide certain information to parents on request (Part I of Schedule 3) and to publish certain information in the school prospectus (Part II of Schedule 3).

• Under regulation 10, if the information in the school prospectus does not include the results of the examinations held most recently, those results must be published as a supplement when they become available and in any event at least two weeks before the time by which parents must make an application for admission to or express a preference for a secondary school which they wish their child to attend.

• Under regulation 11, the governing body of every maintained primary and secondary school and every local education authority in Wales shall make available and distribute in the manner specified in the regulation information to be published by the Secretary of State which contains information provided to him under regulations 7 and 8.

• Under regulation 12, the head teacher, governing body or proprietor is not required to make the same published particulars available to the same person on more than one occasion.