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School Boards: guide to the legislation
Information and reports | 10. (1) Every education authority shall provide to every School Board in their area such information as the Board may from time to time reasonably request relating (a) to the school for which the Board are established; or (b) to the provision of education in the authority's area. (2) Every headteacher shall provide to the School Board, at the time when the Board are established, a statement of the policies as regards (a) curriculum; (b) assessment of pupils; and (c) discipline, rules and uniform, which are being applied in the school, and thereafter shall advise the Board of any changes in those policies.
(3) Every headteacher shall provide to the School Board (a) an annual report, including in particular a report on the level of attainment of the pupils in the school; (b) such other reports and information concerning the school as the Board may from time to time reasonably require.
(4) The School Board may make representations with regard to information, statements and reports provided under this section to the education authority and to the headteacher who shall take account of those representations and shall reply to them. |
Section 10: INFORMATION AND REPORTS This section requires education authorities to provide information to Boards and requires headteachers to give their Boards statements of policies applied in their schools. Headteachers are also required to provide annual reports and any other reports or information that the Board might reasonably require. Boards are given a right to comment on such information and reports and receive replies from the authority or headteacher. Section 10(1) Boards may request information "from time to time": this means that they can ask for information as and when they need it. They are not limited to receiving reports from their authorities at annual or other intervals. Section 10(3) Other than information on the level of attainment, it will be for the Board and the headteacher to agree what information the annual report should contain. A headteacher cannot give the Board details of the performance of individual pupils. |
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