§ Baroness Blackstoneasked Her Majesty's Government:
What will be the reporting arrangements to (a) parents, (b) school governors, (c) the local education authority, and (d) the Department of Education and Science for the results of both the teacher assessments and the standard assessment tasks for the results of the 1991 National Curriculum assessments.
§ Baroness BlatchUnder the Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) Regulations 1990, which the then Secretary of State made last July, all primary schools will be required to report to parents of seven year-old pupils on their own child's level of attainment, as determined under the statutory assessment arrangements, in each of the core subjects and in the profile components comprising those subjects. The regulations also place a duty on head teachers to provide parents, on request, with details of the levels of achievement of their children in each statutory attainment target.
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science intends to ask local education authorities to provide him with aggregate information about the attainments of seven years-olds in their schools. Such information will also be available to local education authorities themselves in respect of the schools they maintain and to school governors in respect of their own schools. The precise nature of the information to be requested by the Secretary of State and the nature of its transmission will be settled shortly. It is the Government's policy strongly to recommend primary schools to publish the aggregate results of the assessments of seven year-olds in 1991.