The Government of Maintained Schools (Training Requirements for Governors) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Made: 3 February 2016

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 9 February 2016

Coming into force: 1 March 2016

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers in sections 22(3) and (4) and 32 of the Education (Wales) Measure 2011[^f00001], make the following Regulations.

Title, commencement, application and interpretation

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• (1) The title of these Regulations is the Government of Maintained Schools (Training Requirements for Governors) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 and they come into force on 1 March 2016.

• (2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

• (3) In these Regulations “the 2013 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2013”) means the Government of Maintained Schools (Training Requirements for Governors) (Wales) Regulations 2013[^f00002].

Amendment of the Government of Maintained Schools (Training Requirements for Governors) (Wales) Regulations 2013

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In regulation 2 of the 2013 Regulations in the definition of “the school performance data training” (“yr hyfforddiant ar ddata perfformiad ysgolion”), for “August 2014 and called “Training for school governors in Wales on understanding school data””, substitute “January 2016 and called “Training for school governors in Wales on understanding school data [^f00003]””.

Saving provision

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Nothing in these Regulations applies to a governor who, before the coming into force of these Regulations, completed the school performance data training required by the 2013 Regulations

Signed

Huw Lewis — Minister for Education and Skills, one of the Welsh Ministers — 3 February 2016

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Government of Maintained Schools (Training Requirements for Governors) (Wales) Regulations 2013 (“the 2013 Regulations”) set out the training requirements for governors at maintained schools in Wales. The training requirements in relation to school performance data are set out in a document entitled “Training for school governors in Wales on understanding school data” and is referred to in the definition of “the school performance data training” (“the 2014 document”) in regulation 2 of the 2013 Regulations. Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends that definition so as to substitute the reference to the 2014 document for a reference to the new school performance data training requirements set out in a document entitled “Training for school governors in Wales on understanding school data” (“the 2016 document”).

Regulation 3 contains a saving provision the effect of which is that existing school governors do not have to complete the training in the 2016 document if they have already completed the training required by the 2013 Regulations before these Regulations came into force.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2011 nawm 7.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2013/2124 (W. 207) as amended by S.I. 2014/1132 (W. 111) and S.I. 2014/2225 (W. 214).