These Regulations, made under sections 29(3), 408, 537, 537A(1) and (2) and 569(4) and (5) of the Education Act 1996, apply in relation to schools in Wales. The Regulations relate to the collection of information about the performance of schools.

Part 1 of the Regulations comprises general provisions.

Part 2 imposes duties on head teachers of maintained schools to make available information to governing bodies for the purpose of enabling them to comply with their obligations under these Regulations (regulation 4).

Part 3 contains detailed provisions relating to the provision of information to the local authority and the Welsh Ministers.

Governing bodies of maintained schools must provide local authorities with information about the foundation phase, the second key stage and the third key stage assessment results (regulation 5 and Schedule 2).

The local authority must provide the Welsh Ministers with information about the foundation phase, the second key stage and the third key stage assessment results on all registered pupils in the foundation phase, the second key stage and the third key stage at the schools maintained by the local authority (regulation 6 and Schedule 2).

Governing bodies of maintained schools and proprietors of non-maintained special schools and independent schools with pupils aged 15, 16, 17 or 18 must provide the Welsh Ministers with specified information about their results (regulation 7 and Schedule 3).

Governing bodies of maintained schools and the proprietors of independent and non-maintained special schools must provide the local authority with information about authorised and unauthorised absences (regulation 8).