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Duty to promote education
of people of Wales (s.10). |
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Powers to require LEAs
to provide information (s.29). |
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Power to make regulation
prescribing requirements to be met by independent
schools catering for pupils with special educational
needs (s.347). |
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Power to issue guidance
which must be taken into account by schools in teaching
sex education (s.403). |
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Power, by regulations,
to require governing bodies and LEAs to provide
information about the curriculum, education provision,
syllabuses, certain educational achievements etc.
in maintained schools (s.408). |
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Power to pay grant to
LEAs in respect of expenditure prescribed in regulations,
being expenditure for or in connection with educational
purposes which appears to the Assembly that LEAs
in Wales should be encouraged to incur in the interests
of education in Wales (s.484). |
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Wide powers enabling
the Assembly to secure proper performance of LEA’s
functions (ss.497A and 397B). |
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Power to direct local
inquiries for the purpose of the exercise of any
of the Assembly’s functions under the Education
Acts (s.507). |
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Power to make regulations
providing for grants to defray expenses of engaging
in school activities and grants, scholarships, exhibitions,
bursaries and allowances in respect of persons over
compulsory school age to enable persons to take
advantage of educational facilities available to
them (s.518). |
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Power to issue guidance
concerning the content of plans to be prepared by
LEAs in respect of children with behavioural difficulties
which LEAs must take into account in preparing their
plans (s.527A). |
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Power, by regulations,
to require provisions/publication of information
relating to schools (s.537). |
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Power, by regulations,
to provide for publication or provision of individual
pupil information (s.537A). |
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Power, by regulations,
to specify duration of school day and school year
(s.551). |
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Power, by regulations, to impose a
limit on infant class size (s.1). |
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Power to make regulations about the
content of LEA education development plans which
require Assembly approval (s.6). |
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Power, by regulations,
to specify matters which school organisation plans
must deal and to make regulations specifying the
procedure to be followed by the LEA in connection
with the preparation and adoption of their plans
(s.26). |
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Powers to approve school reorganisation
proposals and powers to direct publication of such
proposals (Part II Chapter II). |
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Power, by regulations, to provide
for school attendance targets (s.63). |
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Various powers to regulate school
admissions including the function of issuing a Code
of Practice which all those concerned in the admissions
process must take into account in exercising their
functions (Part III). |
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Power to make regulations prescribing
nutritional standards for school meals (s.114). |
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Power to make regulations specifying
the minimum age to which the LEA’s duty to
secure provision of nursery education applies (s.118). |
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Power to make regulations regulating
procedure for preparation/approval of early years
and child care plans, and to issue guidance on the
constitution of early years and child care partnerships
(ss.119-121). |
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Duty to issue a Code of Practice containing
practical guidance for securing effective relationships
between LEAs and schools maintained by them in relation
to promoting high standards of education and in
relation to the discharge of relevant functions
of the LEAs in relation to such schools (s.127). |
| Learning
and Skills Act 2000 |
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Various controls enabling the Assembly
to control and influence the way in which NCETW
carries out its functions (see, in particular, ss.43-44,
47 and 49). |
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Power, by direction, to require LEAs
to establish youth support services, taking into
account Assembly Guidance (s.123).("Youth support
services" is defined as "services which
in the opinion of the National Assembly will encourage,
enable or assist young persons (directly or indirectly…
to participate effectively in education or training,…
to take advantage of opportunities for employment,
or… to participate effectively and responsibly
in the life of their communities";) |
| Education
Act 2002 |
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Power to suspend or relax statutory
requirements under the Education Acts in relation
to LEAs and schools (s.2). |
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Power to exempt high performing schools
from curriculum and (subject to consent of DFES)
teacher pay/conditions provisions (s.7). |
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Very wide powers to provide financial
assistance for purposes related to education and
child care (ss.14-17). |
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Very wide powers to make provision
for the constitution of school governing bodies
and the conduct of schools (Part III). |
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Very wide powers to make provision
for appointment, discipline, suspension and dismissal
of school teachers and other staff (ss.35-37). |
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Very wide powers in relation to the
basic and National Curriculum in Wales (Part VII). |
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Power to make provision in regulations
for the appraisal of school teachers (s.31). |
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Power to make regulations specifying
the requirements to be satisfied for a person to
be a "qualified teacher" (s.132). |
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Power to make regulations specifying
work which may only be carried out by a qualified
teacher, subject to exceptions specified in the
regulations (s.133). |
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Power to make regulations as to qualifications
head teachers are required to possess (s.135). |
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Power to make regulations providing
for persons providing education at FE institutions
to possess specified qualifications (s.136). |
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Power to make regulations providing
for principals of FE institutions to possess specified
qualifications. |
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Power to make regulations prohibiting
FE or HE institutions from providing a course of
HE without Assembly approval, for the Assembly to
determine the number of persons who may undertake
such a course and for enabling the Assembly to determine
the number of persons in different categories who
may undertake such a course. |
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Power to make regulations about health
and fitness of persons employed at schools or FE
institutions. |
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Concurrent powers with Secretary of
State to prohibit persons from teaching on various
grounds (s.142). |
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Wide powers to regulate independent
schools (Part X). |
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Powers to provide in regulations for
the payment of education maintenance allowances
in respect of specified persons over compulsory
school age undertaking educational training of a
description specified in the regulations (ss.181-185). |
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Wide powers to require regional provision
to be made for pupils with special educational needs,
including the establishment of regional schools
(ss.191-194). |
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A new Special Educational Needs Tribunal
for Wales (s.195). |
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Very wide powers to require schools
to provide information (including Value Added). |
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Powers, by regulations, to require
LEAs and governing bodies of maintained schools
to enter into partnership agreements. |
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Powers to require secondary schools
and their feeder primaries to jointly draw up plans
to facilitate the transition from the primary to
the secondary phase (s.198). |
