Statutory Instruments
Education, England
Made
26th November 2008
Laid before Parliament
4th December 2008
Coming into force
1st January 2009
The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 537A(1) and 569(4) of the Education Act 1996(1):
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and come into force on 1st January 2009.
(2) These Regulations apply only in relation to schools in England.
2.—(1) The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2006(2) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—
(a)at the end of the definition of “unauthorised absence”, omit “and”; and
(b)after the definition of “unauthorised absence”, insert—
““unique learner number”, in relation to a registered pupil at a school, means the specific combination of numbers allocated to the pupil by the Learning and Skills Council for England as that pupil’s unique learner number; and”.
(3) In Part 1 of Schedule 1 (all pupils on the school register)—
(a)at the end of sub-paragraph 2(j) omit “and”;
(b)at the end of sub-paragraph 2(k) insert “and”; and
(c)after sub-paragraph 2(k), insert—
“(l) unique learner number, where known.”.
Jim Knight
Minister of State
Department for Children, Schools and Families
26th November 2008
(This note is not part of the Order)
These Regulations amend the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2601), as amended. The effect of the amendment is that schools maintained by a local education authority are required to provide additional information to that authority, and non-maintained special schools, city technology colleges, city colleges for the technology of the arts and Academies are required to provide additional information to the Secretary of State. The additional information required to be provided is the pupil’s unique learner number, where known by the school.
A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.
1996 c. 56. Section 537A was inserted by the Education Act 1997 (c. 44), section 20, and substituted by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31), Schedule 30, paragraph 153. By virtue of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions ) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), the powers conferred by that section are exercisable by the Secretary of State in relation to England. See section 579(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.
S.I. 2006/2601, to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations.