The Education (Individual Performance Information) (Identification of Individual Pupils) Regulations 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke and replace the Education (Individual Performance Information) (Identification of Individual Pupils) Regulations 1997. They prescribe the manner of identification of individual pupils for the purposes of the provision of individual performance information under section 537A of the Education Act 1996.

Section 537A(2) of the Education Act 1996 provides that—

• ““individual performance information” means information about the performance of individual pupils (identified in the prescribed manner)—

  (a)

  in any assessment made for the purposes of the National Curriculum or in accordance with a baseline assessment scheme (within the meaning of Chapter 1 of part IV of the Education Act 1997);

  (b)

  in any prescribed public examination;

  (c)

  in connection with the attainment of any vocational qualification; or

  (d)

  in any such other assessment or examination, or in connection with the attainment of any such other qualification, as may be prescribed”.