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Welsh Statutory Instruments
Education, Wales
Made
10 August 2020
Laid before Senedd Cymru
11 August 2020
Coming into force
1 September 2020
1. The title of these Regulations is the Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 and they come into force on 1 September 2020.
2. The Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 2003(3) are amended as follows.
3. In regulation 4(2), at the beginning insert "Subject to paragraph (2A),".
4. After regulation 4(2) insert-
"(2A) At least 370 sessions must be held at a school listed in paragraph (2B) during the school year 2020-2021 save that nothing in this paragraph is to require a nursery class at those schools to meet for that number of sessions.
(2B) All maintained schools in the following local authority areas-
(i)Conwy;
(ii)Pembrokeshire except for Ysgol y Preseli, Crymych, Pembrokeshire, SA41 3QH;
(iii)Powys."
5. After regulation 5 insert-
"6.-(1) This paragraph applies to any school session falling within the school year 2020-2021 which is devoted (wholly or mainly) to the preparation of schools and planning by teachers following the reduction in operations due to circumstances relating to the incidence or transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
(2) Paragraph (1) is to have effect in relation to no more than four school sessions in the first two weeks of the first term of that school year.
(3) Where paragraph (1) applies, that session is to be regarded for the purposes of regulation 4 as a session on which the school has met."
Kirsty Williams
Minister for Education, one of the Welsh Ministers
10 August 2020
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
The Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 2003 ("the 2003 Regulations") apply to schools maintained by local authorities and to special schools whether or not so maintained. They make provision, among other things, for a school day which is ordinarily to be divided into two sessions with a break in the middle, and for schools (other than nursery schools) to meet for at least 380 sessions during any school year.
These Regulations amend the 2003 Regulations in two ways:
(1) To allow schools which opened for an additional week at the end of the summer term of the 2019-2020 school year to hold at least 370 sessions during the 2020-2021 school year instead of at least 380 sessions.
(2) To allow for up to four sessions to count as sessions on which the school met if they were devoted to the preparation of schools and planning by teachers following a reduction in operations as a result of the incidence and transmission of Coronavirus during the 2019-2020 school year. These sessions will be held during the first two weeks of the first term of the 2020-2021 school year.
The Welsh Ministers' Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has been prepared as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations. A copy can be obtained from the School Governance, School Organisation and Admissions Branch, the Schools Effectiveness Division, Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.
1996 c. 56. Section 551(1A) was inserted by paragraph 39 of Schedule 7 to the Education Act 1997 (c. 44), and section 551(2) was amended by paragraph 166 of Schedule 30 and Schedule 31 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31). For the meaning of "regulations" and "prescribed" see section 579(1).
The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I.1999/672) and then to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).
