Office of Public Sector Information

PART 2

Sixth Form Pupils

1.  The following information about each person who is, or was at any previous time during the school year in which the request for the information was made, a pupil in the school’s sixth form—

(a) whether the pupil is studying towards a Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification;

(b) the title of each learning activity the pupil is studying; and

(c) whether the pupil was screened to identify any basic skills needs for literacy and numeracy at the beginning and end of the pupil’s programme of learning activities in the sixth form and, if so whether any basic skills in relation to each of literacy and numeracy were—

(i) not assessed because no basic skills were identified when the pupil was screened; or

(ii) assessed and the pupil’s basic skills were identified as being—

(aa) below entry level,

(bb) entry level 1,

(cc) entry level 2,

(dd) entry level 3,

(ee) level 1, or

(ff) above level 1; or

(iii) not known or the pupil refused to be assessed.

(d) what support was offered to the pupil and what support the pupil accepted where the pupil has been assessed under sub-paragraph (c)(ii) and the basic skills of the pupil were identified as being below entry level 1.

2.  In relation to each learning activity the pupil is studying—

(a) the learning activity reference;

(b) the date the pupil commenced the learning activity;

(c) the expected end date of the learning activity;

(d) the identity of the provider of the learning activity;

(e) whether the learning activity is delivered through the medium of English, the medium of Welsh, or bilingually through the media of English and Welsh;

(f) whether the pupil has a learning difficulty or a disability, or both, and if so whether the pupil is undertaking a discrete learning activity or a mainstream learning activity;

(g) whether the pupil is continuing to study or has completed or withdrawn from the learning activity; and

(h) whether the pupil has completed or withdrawn from the learning activity, the date upon which the pupil completed or withdrew from the learning activity and whether the pupil has begun to study a new learning activity.

3.  The following information about a pupil who during the school year in which the request for information is made stopped attending the school’s sixth form—

(a) the date the pupil left the school; and

(b) the reason for the pupil leaving the school, if known.

PART 3

Excluded Pupils

1.  The following information about each pupil permanently excluded from the school and whose permanent exclusion date was in the year ending on 31 August preceding the date on which the request for information is made—

(a) current unique pupil number;

(b) surname;

(c) first name, or if more than one each first name;

(d) middle name, or if more than one each middle name;

(e) gender;

(f) date of birth; and

(g) the date the permanent exclusion began.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (Wales) Regulations 2003 and the Education (Individual Pupil Information) (Prescribed Persons) (Wales) Regulations 2004 and substantially re-enact them as amended. These Regulations require the governing body of any maintained school on receiving a written request from the local education authority by which the school is maintained to supply within fourteen days such of the information referred to in the Schedule as may be requested by the authority in respect of pupils at the school.

Regulation 5 prescribes which persons may be provided with individual pupil information by the Welsh Ministers under section 537A(4) of the Education Act 1996 and which individual pupil information may be provided by “information collators”. Applying the definition of an information collator in section 537A(9) of the Education Act 1996 to Wales, an information collator is any body which, for the purposes of or in connection with the education functions of the Welsh Ministers, is responsible for collating or checking information relating to pupils. The information which they may provide by these Regulations relates to the educational achievements of pupils in any GCE “A” level examinations, any GCE “AS” examinations, any GNVQ subjects and any course of study provided to pupils of compulsory school age in a school maintained by a local education authority leading to a qualification which is approved by the Welsh Ministers or by a body designated by the Welsh Ministers under section 99 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000.