Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 1st October 2020.

Amendment of the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013

2. —(1)The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013( 2 ) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation) omit the definition of “unauthorised absence”.

(3) In Schedule 1 (provision of information about individual pupils)—

(a) for paragraph 16 substitute—

“ 16. For each pupil who is not a boarder—

(a) the total number of morning and afternoon sessions which the pupil could have attended during such periods as are specified in the request for information; and

(b) where the 2006 Regulations specify the ways in which pupils’ attendances and non-attendances are to be recorded in an attendance register, the number of sessions recorded in each of the ways specified in those Regulations. ” ;

(b) in each of paragraphs 17 and 31—

(i) for “absences (if any)” substitute “attendances and non-attendances”; and

(ii) for “reason for the absences” substitute “information recorded in that system in relation to those attendances and non-attendances”; and

(c) for paragraph 30 substitute—

“ 30. —(1) The total number of morning and afternoon sessions which the pupil could have attended during such periods as are specified in the request for information.

(2) Where the 2006 Regulations specify the ways in which pupils’ attendances and non-attendances are to be recorded in an attendance register, the number of such sessions recorded in each of the ways specified in those Regulations. ” .