Report to parents
9.—(1) The teacher in charge of a pupil referral unit and the proprietor of an independent school must make available to the parent of each child of compulsory school age to whom it provides funded provision, each school year, a report in writing containing the individual information specified in Schedule 2.
(2) The parent of each child of compulsory school age to whom the teacher in charge of a pupil referral unit or the proprietor of an independent school provides funded provision, is a prescribed person for the purposes of section 537A(2)(b) of the 1996 Act.
(3) Nothing in this regulation prevents the individual information specified in Schedule 2 being contained in more than one report provided that, subject to paragraph (5), the provider of the funded provision must each school year send such information by post or otherwise before the end of the summer term.
(4) The period to which a report containing the individual information in Schedule 2 relates must in all cases begin with the later of–
(a)the date on which the person providing funded provision began providing such education to the child; or
(b)the end of the period to which the last report on such matters made pursuant to these Regulations related.
(5) Where any of the particulars necessary to provide the information specified in paragraphs 6, 7 or 8 of Schedule 2 are not received by the provider of the funded provision until after the end of the summer term, he or she must make available such information as soon as practicable and in any event not later than the following 30 September.