Authorities to prepare and publish Single Education Plan
3.—(1) Each authority must prepare and publish a Single Education Plan in accordance with these Regulations.
(2) The plan must contain a statement of the overall strategic vision and values that the authority apply in discharging their education responsibilities, having regard to their responsibilities under equality legislation, including in particular the Welsh Language Act 1993(1), the Sex Discrimination Act 1975(2), the Race Relations Act 1976(3), the Disability Discrimination Act 1995(4), and the Human Rights Act 1998(5).
(3) In this regulation a “Single Education Plan” (“Cynllun Addysg Sengl”) means a plan of the kind referred to in section 26(1) of the 2004 Act covering the authority’s strategies for—
(a)raising the standards of education for children and young people being educated at schools maintained by the authority or otherwise than at school;
(b)improving the performance of schools maintained by the authority;
(c)the planning of school places and nursery places to meet the needs of the population of the authority’s area; and
(d)the education of pupils who by reason of illness, exclusion or otherwise are not attending school;
and Targets for improved pupil attainment and attendance, and for reducing the number of pupils excluded from school.
(4) The content of a Single Education Plan must conform with regulation 4.