The Education (Governors' Annual Reports) (Wales) Regulations 1999

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Governors' Annual Reports) (Wales) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st September 1999.

(2) These regulations apply only in relation to schools in Wales.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations–

“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996(1);

“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;

“the Assembly” means the National Assembly for Wales(2);

“annual parents' meeting” means the meeting of parents which the governing body are required to hold once in every school year under section 43 of the 1998 Act;

“budget share” means the amount allocated to the governing body by virtue of section 47 of the 1998 Act or (in relation to any period before 1st April 1999) by virtue of section 103(2)(a) of the 1996 Act(3);

“governors' report” means the report which the governing body are required to prepare once in every year under section 42(1) of the 1988 Act;

“maintained school” means a community, foundation or voluntary school or a community or foundation special school (within the meaning of the 1998 Act);

“previous annual parents' meeting” means the last annual parents' meeting held by the governing body or (if no such meeting has previously been held under section 43 of the 1988 Act) the last annual parents' meeting held by them pursuant to the requirements included in the articles of government for the school by virtue of section 162 of, or paragraph 8 of Schedule 23 to, the 1996 Act(4); and

“previous governors' report” means the last governors' report prepared by the governing body or (if no such report has previously been prepared by them under section 42(1) of the 1998 Act) the last governors' report prepared by them pursuant to the requirements included in the articles of government for the school by virtue of section 161 of, or paragraph 7 of Schedule 23 to, the 1996 Act(5).

Matters to be dealt with in a governors' report

3.  Every governors' report shall contain the information specified in the Schedule.

Requirements with respect to governors' report

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, it shall be for the governing body to determine the language or languages in which the governors' report is to be produced, and the form or forms in which it is to be produced.

(2) The governing body shall comply with any direction given by the local education authority by which the school is maintained with respect to any additional language to be used or with respect to any additional form in which the report is to be produced.

5.  The governing body shall take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that–

(a) the parents of all registered pupils at the school and all persons employed at the school are given (free of charge) a copy of the governors' report;

(b) copies of the report are available for inspection (at all reasonable times and free of charge) at the school; and

(c) where (by virtue of section 43 of the 1998 Act) there is an obligation on the governing body to hold an annual parents' meeting, copies of the governors' report to be considered at that meeting are given to parents not less than two weeks before that meeting.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Peter Hain

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

17th May 1999