These Regulations amend the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”). The 2007 Regulations require the governing body of any maintained school on receiving a written request from the local authority by which the school is maintained to supply within fourteen days such of the information as is requested by the authority in respect of pupils at the school.

Regulation 2 amends the 2007 Regulations so as to require a governing body to provide to a local authority additional information to that it is already required to provide by virtue of the 2007 Regulations in relation permanent exclusions of pupils. Regulation 2 further amends the 2007 Regulations so as to require governing bodies to provide to local authorities information in relation to fixed period exclusions of pupils.