The Education (Notification of School Term Dates) (Wales) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020

JurisdictionWales
CitationSI 2020/622
Year2020

2020 No. 622 (W. 142)

Education, Wales

The Education (Notification of School Term Dates) (Wales) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020

Made 19th June 2020

Laid before Senedd Cymru 23th June 2020

Coming into force 16th July 2020

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 32A and 210 of the Education Act 20021, make the following Regulations:

S-1 Title and commencement

Title and commencement

1. The title of these Regulations is the Education (Notification of School Term Dates) (Wales) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 and they come into force on 16 July 2020.

S-2 Amendment of the Education (Notification of School Term Dates) (Wales) Regulations 2014

Amendment of the Education (Notification of School Term Dates) (Wales) Regulations 2014

2. Regulation 4 of the Education (Notification of School Term Dates) (Wales) Regulations 20142is amended as follows—

(a) the existing provision becomes paragraph (1);

(b) at the beginning of paragraph (1) insert “Subject to paragraph (2),”;

(c) after paragraph (1) insert—

S-2

2. For the school year 2022-2023, a local authority must notify the Welsh Ministers of all term dates which have been determined for the maintained schools in its area for that school year no later than 31 December 2020.”

Kirsty Williams

Minister for Education, one of the Welsh Ministers

19 June 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 32A of the Education Act 2002 requires a local authority to determine the term dates for each community, voluntary controlled or community special school or maintained nursery school in its area. In doing so, local authorities must co-operate and co-ordinate with each other and with relevant governing bodies in their area to ensure that school terms dates for maintained schools are the same (or as similar as can be).

The Education (Notification of School Term Dates) (Wales) Regulations 2014 ( S.I. 2014/1249 (W. 130)) (“the 2014 Regulations”) provide that local authorities must notify the Welsh Ministers of the school dates determined at least two years in advance (i.e. by the final working day in August two years before the school year in question).

These Regulations, which are made under section 32A and 210 of the Education Act 2002, amend the 2014 Regulations so that the notice for the school year 2022-23 must be sent to the Welsh Ministers by 31 December 2020. Schools and local authorities are likely to...

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