The Government of Maintained Schools (Training Requirements for Governors) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Government of Maintained Schools (Training Requirements for Governors) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (“the 2013 Regulations”) set out the training requirements for governors at maintained schools in Wales. The training requirements in relation to school performance data are currently set out in a document entitled “Training for school governors in Wales on understanding school data”, which is referred to in the definition of “the school performance data training” (“the 2018 document”) in regulation 2(1) of the 2013 Regulations. Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends that definition so as to replace the reference to the 2018 Document with a reference to the new school performance data training set out in a document entitled “Training for school governors in Wales: understanding the role of data in supporting self-evaluation and improvement in schools” published in November 2020 (“the 2020 document”). It can be found on the Welsh Government website: www.gov.wales.

Regulation 3 provides that school governors who completed the school performance data training in the 2020 document, before the coming into force of these Regulations, are to be treated as meeting the school performance data training requirements under the 2013 Regulations.

Regulation 4 contains a saving provision the effect of which is that existing school governors do not have to complete the training in the 2020 document if they have already completed the training required by the 2013 Regulations before these Regulations came into force.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.