
2021 No. 367 (W. 112)
Education, Wales
The Government of Maintained Schools (Training Requirements for Governors) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Made 19 March 2021
Laid before Senedd Cymru 23 March 2021
Coming into force 14 April 2021
The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers in sections 22(3) and (4) and 32(2) of the Education (Wales) Measure 2011, make the following Regulations.
Title, commencement 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 2021 and they come into force on 14 April 2021.
(2) In these Regulations, “the 2013 Regulations” means the Government of Maintained Schools (Training Requirements for Governors) (Wales) Regulations 2013.
Amendment of the Government of Maintained Schools (Training Requirements for Governors) (Wales) Regulations 2013
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In regulation 2(1) of the 2013 Regulations, in the definition of “the school performance data training”, for “in June 2018 and called “Training for school governors in Wales on understanding school data””, substitute “on the gov.wales website on 18 November 2020 and called “Training for school governors in Wales: understanding the role of data in supporting self-evaluation and improvement in schools””.
School performance data training undertaken by a governor that is to be treated as meeting the training requirements under the 2013 Regulations
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(1) A governor who, between 18 November 2020 and the coming into force of these Regulations, completed training for governors about school performance data specified in the 2020 document provided by, or on behalf of, a local authority, is to be treated, for the purpose of regulation 5(1) and (3) of the 2013 Regulations, as having completed the required school performance data training.
(2) In this regulation—
 “the 2020 document” (“dogfen 2020”) means the school performance data training document published by the Welsh Ministers on the gov.wales website on 18 November 2020 and called “Training for school governors in Wales: understanding the role of data in supporting self-evaluation and improvement in schools”;
 “school performance data training” (“hyfforddiant ar ddata perfformiad ysgolion”) has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the 2013 Regulations.
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.
Kirsty Williams
Minister for Education, one of the Welsh Ministers
19 March 2021