The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and they come into force on 13 January 2014.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Amendment

2.—(1) The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (Wales) Regulations 2007(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3, at the appropriate place insert—

“fixed period exclusion” (“gwaharddiad cyfnod penodol”) in relation to a pupil means excluded for a fixed period or periods on disciplinary grounds from the school to which a request is made under regulation 3 or 5;.

(3) In Part 3 of Schedule 2 for paragraph 1 substitute—

“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) current unique learner number, where known;

(c) surname;

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

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

(f) gender;

(g) date of birth;

(h) the date the permanent exclusion began;

(i) the reason for the exclusion; and

(j) whether the exclusion was a permanent exclusion or a fixed period exclusion.

2.   The following information about each pupil excluded from the school for a fixed period and whose 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) current unique learner number, where known;

(c) surname;

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

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

(f) gender;

(g) date of birth;

(h) the date the exclusion began;

(i) the number of school sessions to which the exclusion applies;

(j) the reason for the exclusion; and

(k) whether the exclusion was a permanent exclusion or a fixed period exclusion.”.

Huw Lewis

Minister for Education and Skills, one of the Welsh Ministers

10 December 2013