The Education (Information About Children in Alternative Provision) (Wales) Regulations 2009

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

• “the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Education Act 1996;

• “approved external qualification” (“cymhwyster allanol a gymeradwywyd”) is a qualification within the meaning of sections 96(5) and 97(5) of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 that, at the relevant time, is approved under section 99 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000(1) for the purposes of sections 96 and 97 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000;

• “funded independent school education” (“addysg ysgol annibynnol a ariennir”) has the meaning given to it by regulation 3(b);

• “funded provision” (“darpariaeth a ariennir”) has the meaning given to it by regulation 3;

• “individual information” (“gwybodaeth am unigolion”) means, in relation to funded independent school education and pupil referral units, individual pupil information, and in relation to funded education, individual child information;

• “attendance record” (“cofnod presenoldeb”) means the record of a pupil’s school attendance contained in the register kept in accordance with section 434 of the 1996 Act and the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 1995(2);

• “relevant local authority” (“awdurdod lleol perthnasol”) means the local education authority in Wales that funds or will fund the funded provision;

• “result” (“canlyniad”) in relation to any teacher assessment means the result of the assessment as determined and recorded by a teacher;

• “special educational needs” (“anghenion addysgol arbennig”) has the meaning given to it by section 312 of the 1996 Act(3);

• “teacher assessment” (“asesiad athrawon”) means an assessment by a teacher of a child’s subject level of attainment in the subjects and activities forming part of the curriculum that child has been taught;

• “unique pupil number” (“Rhif unigryw disgybl”) means a combination of numbers which together with a letter or letters are allocated to a pupil and are unique to him or her, by use of a formula determined by the Welsh Ministers; and

• “unit or credit” (“uned neu gredyd”), in relation to a qualification, means a module or part of a course leading to that qualification which, when successfully completed, can be counted together with other modules or parts towards obtaining that qualification.

(1)

2000 c. 21. Sub-sections (7) and (8) of section 99 were repealed by article 1(1) of the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales (Transfer of Functions to the National Assembly for Wales and Abolition) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3239 (W.244)).

(2)

S.I. 1995/2089 as amended by the Education (Pupil Registration) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2624), the Education (Pupil Registration) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1109 (W.53)), the Education (Pupil Exclusions and Appeals) (Maintained Schools) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3227 (W.308)), the Education Act 2002 (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2913 (W.210)).

(3)

Section 312 has been amended by section 140(1) and paragraph 72 of Schedule 30 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31) and section 195 and 215(1) of, and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 18 and paragraph 36 of Schedule 21 to, the Education Act 2002.