The Education (School Performance Information) (England) Regulations 2001

PART III Provision of Information to the Secretary of State and Local Education Authorities

Provision of first key stage assessment results to local education authorities

6.  The governing body of every maintained school which, in the assessment term of the reporting school year, has registered pupils who are at or near the end of the final year of the first key stage shall each year, by the end of that term, provide to the authority the information relating to assessment referred to in Schedule 1.

Provision of information about second key stage assessment results to the Secretary of State

7.  The governing body of every maintained primary or middle deemed secondary school shall, within two weeks of receiving a written request from the Secretary of State, provide him with the information for the reporting school year referred to in Schedule 2.

Provision of results of school examinations and of courses leading towards vocational qualifications to the Secretary of State

8.  The governing body of every maintained school and the proprietor of every non-maintained special school or independent school with pupils aged 15, 16, 17 or 18 shall, within two weeks of receiving a written request from the Secretary of State, provide him with such particulars relating to public examinations and courses leading to vocational qualifications, units of vocational qualifications, or information technology key skill qualifications for which registered pupils at the school were entered, and such other information as is referred to—

(a) in the case of a school providing information in respect of pupils aged 15, in Part I of Schedule 3; or

(b) in the case of a school providing information in respect of pupils aged 16, 17 or 18, in Part II of Schedule 3.

Provision of information about authorised and unauthorised absence to the Secretary of State

9.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the governing body of every maintained school and the proprietor of every non-maintained special school or independent school shall, within two weeks of receiving a written request by the Secretary of State, provide him with the information for the reporting school year specified in Schedule 4.

(2) This regulation does not apply in respect of a school providing education for boarding pupils only.

Provision of general information about secondary schools to the Secretary of State

10.  The governing body of every maintained secondary school, except a middle deemed secondary school, and the proprietor of every non-maintained special school or independent school with pupils aged 15 shall, within two weeks of receiving a written request from the Secretary of State, provide him with the general information about the school for the reporting school year referred to in Schedule 5.

Provision of general information about primary schools to the Secretary of State

11.  The governing body of every maintained primary or middle deemed secondary school, shall, within two weeks of receiving a written request from the Secretary of State, provide him with the general information about the school for the reporting school year referred to in Schedule 6.

Provision of information about excluded pupils to local education authorities

12.  The governing body of every maintained school shall, within two weeks of receiving a written request from the authority, provide to the authority the information, for the period to which the request relates, referred to in Schedule 9, as appropriate, in respect of any pupil excluded from the school by the head teacher.

Provision of information about permanently excluded pupils to local education authorities

13.—(1) The governing body of every maintained school to which paragraph (2) or (3) applies, shall, within two weeks of the third Thursday in January in each reporting school year, provide to the authority the information referred to in Part I of Schedule 10 in respect of any pupil permanently excluded from the school as referred to in paragraph (2) or (3) as the case may be.

(2) This paragraph applies where the permanent exclusion from a maintained school of any pupil, who attained the age of 14 during the period of twelve months ending on the 31st August in the year immediately preceding the year in which the reporting school year begins, takes effect during the school year immediately preceding the reporting school year and who, as at the third Thursday in January in the reporting school year, is not shown as a registered pupil at the school in its Register.

(3) This paragraph applies where the permanent exclusion from a maintained school of any pupil, who attained the age of 15 during the period of twelve months ending on the 31st August in the year immediately preceding the year in which the reporting school year begins, takes effect on or after the beginning of the reporting school year and who, as at the third Thursday in January in that school year, is not shown as a registered pupil at the school in its Register.

(4) Where any pupil who has been permanently excluded from a school as referred to in paragraph (2) or (3) is thereafter and before the third Friday in January in the reporting school year, admitted to any maintained school (referred to in this paragraph as “the admitting school”), the governing body of the admitting school shall provide to the authority, within two weeks of the third Thursday in January in each reporting school year, the information referred to in Part II of Schedule 10 in respect of the pupil.

(5) For the purposes of this regulation and Schedule 10, the permanent exclusion of a pupil takes effect on the first school day on which the pupil misses a school session as a result of that permanent exclusion.