Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 2116
EDUCATION, ENGLAND
The Education (School Performance Information) (England) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2000
Made
28th July 2000
Laid before Parliament
3rd August 2000
Coming into force
24th August 2000
In exercise of powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 29(3), 408, 537 and 569(4) and (5) of the Education Act 1996( 1 ), and after consulting with those persons with whom consultation appeared to him to be desirable, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement, extent and application
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (School Performance Information) (England) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 24th August 2000.
(2) These Regulations shall apply only in relation to England.
(3) Any reference in these Regulations to the principal Regulations is a reference to the Education (School Performance Information) (England) Regulations 1999( 2 ).
Amendment
2. The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows.
3. In Regulation 14(1) for “paragraphs (2) and (3)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (2), (3) and (3A).”.
4. Regulation 14 of the principal Regulations shall be amended by the insertion after paragraph (3) of the following paragraph—
“ (3A) In addition to the information which the local education authority is required to publish under paragraph 3, it shall also publish information as to the number of registered pupils referred to in paragraphs 5, 6 and 8 of Schedule 6 expressed as percentages of the number of registered pupils or the number of registered pupils at or near the end of the final year of the second key stage, as the case may be, at every maintained primary or middle deemed secondary school, except a special school. ”
5. In regulation 14(6)(b) (publication of performance information about primary schools by local education authorities), for “on or before 8th December in each year” there shall be substituted “within three weeks of the date of a written request from the Secretary of State”.
6. for paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations (provision of general information to the Secretary of State: secondary schools) there shall be substituted—
“ 5. The number of registered pupils aged 15 who have special educational needs, ” ( 3 ).
7. For paragraph 8 of Schedule 6 to the principal Regulations (provision of general information to the Secretary of State: primary schools) there shall be substituted—
“ 8. The number of registered pupils at or near the end of the final year of the second key stage who have special educational needs. ” .
Tessa Blackstone
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Employment
28th July 2000
1996 c. 56 . By virtue of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672 ) the powers conferred by these sections are exercisable by the Secretary of State in relation to England.
For the definition of special educational needs see section 312(1) of the Education Act 1996.