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PART IIIPROVISION OF INFORMATION TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE

Provision of assessment results to the Secretary of State

6.—(1) The governing body of every school maintained by an authority which, in the summer term of the reporting school year, has registered pupils who are at or near the end of the final year of the first key stage, shall, on or before 20th September, submit to the authority the information relating to assessment referred to in Part I of Schedule 1.

(2) Every authority which, pursuant to paragraph (1), receives information from schools which it maintains shall, on or before 1st October, submit to the Secretary of State that information for each such school.

(3) The governing body of every grant-maintained school which, in the summer term of the reporting school year, has registered pupils who are at or near the end of the final year of the first key stage, shall, on or before 20th September, submit to the Secretary of State the information relating to assessment referred to in Part I of Schedule 1.

(4) The governing body of every maintained school and the proprietor of every CTC which, in the summer term of the reporting school year, has registered pupils who are at or near the end of the final year of the third key stage, shall, by 15 September, submit to the Secretary of State the information derived from the statutory assessments referred to in Part II of Schedule 1.

Provision of results of school examinations and of courses leading towards vocational qualifications to the Secretary of State

7.  The governing body of every maintained school and the proprietor of every non-maintained special school or independent school with pupils aged 15, 16, 17 or 18 shall, within two weeks of receiving a written request from the Secretary of State, make available to him such particulars relating to public examinations and courses leading to vocational qualifications or units for which registered pupils at the school were entered during the reporting school year, and such other information as are referred to—

(a)in the case of a school providing information in respect of pupils aged 15, inPart I of Schedule 2;

(b)in the case of a school providing information in respect of pupils aged 16, 17 or 18, in Part II of Schedule 2.

Provision of information about unauthorised absence to the Secretary of State

8.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the governing body of a school maintained by an authority shall make available to that authority information for the reporting school year about the matters mentioned in Schedule 3, for the purpose of enabling the authority to comply with its obligations under paragraph (2).

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), every authority, in respect of each school which it maintains, the governing body of every grant-maintained school and the proprietor of every independent school and non-maintained special school shall, within two weeks of receiving a written request from the Secretary of State, provide him with information for the reporting school year about the matters mentioned in Schedule 3.

(3) This regulation does not apply in respect of a school providing education for boarding pupils only.

Provision of general information to the Secretary of State

9.  The governing body of every maintained secondary school (except a middle deemed secondary school), the proprietor of every independent and non-maintained special school with pupils aged 15 and the proprietor of every CTC shall, within two weeks of receiving a written request from the Secretary of State, provide him with the general information about the school for the reporting school year referred to in Schedule 4.