The Education (Individual Pupil Information) (Prescribed Persons) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

Amendment of the Education (Individual Pupil Information) (Prescribed Persons) (England) Regulations 2009

2.—(1) The Education (Individual Pupil Information) (Prescribed Persons) (England) Regulations 2009(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3 (prescribed persons)—

(a) in paragraph (5)—

(i) omit sub-paragraph (q),

(ii) after sub-paragraph (v), insert—

“(w) where a school is designated under section 69(3) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(2) as having a religious character—

(i) in the case of a school designated as Church of England or Roman Catholic, the appropriate diocesan authority(3),

(ii) in the case of a school designated as Jewish, the Jewish Studies Education Inspection Service,

(iii) in the case of a school designated as Methodist, the Education Secretary to the Methodist Church,

(iv) in the case of a school designated as Muslim, the Association of Muslim Schools,

(v) in the case of a school designated as Sikh, the Network of Sikh Organisations,

(vi) in the case of a school designated as Seventh Day Adventist, the Education Department of the British Union Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists.”

(b) in paragraph (6) for sub-paragraph (d), substitute—

“(d) persons who, for the purpose of promoting the education or well-being of children in England are—

(i) conducting research or analysis,

(ii) producing statistics, or

(iii) providing information, advice or guidance,

and who require individual pupil information for that purpose(4);”.

(1)

S.I. 2009/1563 as amended by S.I. 2010/677, 2010/1940, 2012/765, 2012/956, 2012/979 and 2013/235.

(2)

1998 c.31 (“the 1998 Act”). Section 124B of the 1998 Act applies section 69(3) to independent schools.

(3)

See section 142 of the 1998 Act for the definition of “appropriate diocesan authority”.

(4)

For the purposes of these Regulations, ‘well-being’ has the meaning referred to in sections 332E and 507B of the Education Act 1996 in relation to those sections. Section 332E was inserted by section 1 of the Special Educational Needs (Information) Act 2008 (c.11) and section 507B was inserted by section 6(1) of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c.40).