Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and come into force on 1st January 2013.

Amendment of the Education (Information About Individual Pupils)(England) Regulations 2006

2. —(1)The Education (Information About Individual Pupils)(England) Regulations 2006( 2 ) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3A (provision of information relating to pupil referral units by local authorities) for “Schedule 1” substitute “Schedules 1 and 2A”.

(3) After regulation 4 insert—

“ 4A. Within fourteen days of receiving a request from the Secretary of State, the governing body of a school (including a special school) maintained by a local authority, which—

(a) provides full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils over compulsory school age; and

(b) provides full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils of compulsory school age,

shall provide to the Secretary of State such of the information referred to in Schedule 2A to these Regulations as is so requested. ” .

(4) In regulation 5 (provision of information by non-maintained special schools, city technology colleges, city colleges for the technology of the arts and Academies to the Secretary of State) for “Schedules 1 and 2” substitute “Schedules 1, 2 and 2A”.

(5) After Schedule 2 (provision of information about the learning aims of individual pupils) insert—

Regulations 3A, 4A and 5

“ SCHEDULE 2A Provision of information about pupils awarded bursaries

1. In respect of each pupil who is or was—

(a) on the school’s register during such period as is specified in the request for information in the twelve months preceding that request; and

(b) aged 16 or over and under 20 as at the 31st August prior to the request from the Secretary of State,

whether the pupil has been awarded a bursary. ”