Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016
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5 Workless households and educational attainment: reporting obligations
In the Child Poverty Act 2010, before section 1 insert— PART A1 LIFE CHANCES Children: reporting obligations Workless households and educational attainment A1A (1) The Secretary of State must publish and lay before Parliament a report containing data on— (a) children living in workless households in England; (b) children living in long-term workless households in England; (c) the educational attainment of children in England at the end of Key Stage 4; (d) the educational attainment of disadvantaged children in England at the end of Key Stage 4. (2) The report must set out how the Secretary of State has interpreted the following terms for the purposes of the report— (a) child; (b) household; (c) worklessness; (d) long-term worklessness; (e) educational attainment; (f) disadvantage. (3) The data contained in the report, and the provision about how the terms used in it are to be interpreted, must, so far as practicable, be derived from any relevant official statistics. (4) The first report must be published before the end of the financial year ending with 31 March 2017. (5) Later reports must be published before the end of each subsequent financial year. (6) In this section— “Key Stage 4” means the fourth key stage, within the meaning of Part 6 of the Education Act 2002; “official statistics” has the meaning given by section 6(1) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.
5 Workless households and educational attainment: reporting obligations
In the Child Poverty Act 2010, before section 1 insert— PART A1 LIFE CHANCES Children: reporting obligations Workless households and educational attainment A1A (1) The Secretary of State must publish and lay before Parliament a report containing data on— (a) children living in workless households in England; (b) children living in long-term workless households in England; (c) the educational attainment of children in England at the end of Key Stage 4; (d) the educational attainment of disadvantaged children in England at the end of Key Stage 4. (2) The report must set out how the Secretary of State has interpreted the following terms for the purposes of the report— (a) child; (b) household; (c) worklessness; (d) long-term worklessness; (e) educational attainment; (f) disadvantage. (3) The data contained in the report, and the provision about how the terms used in it are to be interpreted, must, so far as practicable, be derived from any relevant official statistics. (4) The first report must be published before the end of the financial year ending with 31 March 2017. (5) Later reports must be published before the end of each subsequent financial year. (6) In this section— “Key Stage 4” means the fourth key stage, within the meaning of Part 6 of the Education Act 2002; “official statistics” has the meaning given by section 6(1) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.
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