Education and childcare: coronavirus

Guidance and services

• School operations: coronavirus
  How schools and other providers can make their sites safe for staff and learners.
• Accessing school and community-based counselling: coronavirus
  How children and young people can access remote and telephone counselling during the pandemic.
• Changes to Key Stage 4 reporting arrangements from 2022 to 2023 Academic Year
  Update on Key Stage 4 reporting arrangements from 2022 to 2023.
• Acute respiratory infections including COVID-19: guidance for special educational schools
  How to manage respiratory infections and cases of COVID-19 in special educational settings.
• Carbon dioxide monitors in education settings
  ‘How to use’ guide for carbon dioxide monitors as an aid to managing ventilation in education settings.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• The Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  These Regulations amend The Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 2003.
• Device and connectivity update for digitally excluded learners: coronavirus
  Policy and strategy
  Update on technology provision for digitally excluded learners in maintained schools in Wales to support remote education during the coronavirus outbreak.
• The Curriculum Requirements (Amendment of paragraph 7(5) of Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020) (Wales) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  These Regulations amend Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020 to enable the Welsh Ministers to make a notice to temporarily dis-apply certain curriculum requirements and their associated assessment arrangements.
• Notice to disapply curriculum requirements
  Legislation
  Temporarily removes the requirement for schools and funded nurseries to provide the basic curriculum and associated assessment arrangements.
• Notices disapplying changing school session time requirements
  Legislation
  Temporarily removes the requirement for governing bodies and local authorities to comply with procedures for changing school session times.
• The Maintained Schools (Amendment of paragraph 7 of Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020) (Wales) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  These Regulations amend Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020 to enable the Welsh Ministers to make a notice to temporarily dis-apply the required procedures in changing school session times and relating to consultation on school organisation proposals.
• Modification of School Organisation Code (Wales) Notice 2020
  Legislation
  Temporarily modifies consultation requirements under the School Organisation Code.
• Modification of section 3 of the Education Act 1996 (Wales) Notice 2020
  Legislation
  Temporarily amends the definition of a pupil.
• Provision of education in response to COVID-19: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  We assessed the impact of the initial policy decisions taken in response to COVID-19 from early March 2020 to mid-June 2020.
• Increasing operations in schools and settings in response to COVID-19: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  The assessment focusses on the impacts of decisions made following lockdown measures in March 2020.
• Decisions to allow all learners to return to schools and settings in September: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  The assessment focuses on the impacts of allowing all learners to return to schools and settings in Wales from September 2020.
• Equality impact assessment: regulations governing school premises closures
  Impact assessment
  This impact assessment is about the provisions in regulations for schools to close to all but excepted learners in January 2021.
• The Education (Admission Appeals Arrangements) (Wales) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
  Legislation
  These Regulations amend the Education (Admission Appeals Arrangements) (Wales) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020.
• Moving to remote learning until 18 January 2021: children’s rights
  Impact assessment
  An impact assessment on moving to remote learning and the effects on children's rights.
• Modification of Curriculum Requirements in Wales Notice 2021
  Legislation
  Temporarily modifies the requirement for schools and funded non-maintained nurseries to provide the basic curriculum and associated assessment arrangements.
• The Education (Admission Appeals Arrangements) (Wales) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  These Regulations amend certain procedural and constitutional requirements that are set out in the Education (Admission Appeals Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2005 relating to school admission appeals panels until 31 January 2021.
• Phased return to face-to-face teaching on 22 February 2021: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  An impact assessment on enabling certain groups of learners to return to face-to-face teaching on 22 February 2021.
• The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Wales) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  Under these Regulations the induction period for new school teachers can be reduced and can include periods of professional learning.
• The Relaxation of School Reporting Requirements (Wales) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021
  Legislation
  These Regulations relax a number of requirements on schools as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
• The Education (Notification of School Term Dates) (Wales) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  These Regulations extend the deadline for notifying the Welsh Ministers of proposed school term dates.
• The Coronavirus Act 2020 Temporary Continuity (Local Authorities) Direction 2020
  Legislation
  Requires local authorities to provide education for the children of critical workers and vulnerable children in year 6 and below.
• The Relaxation of School Reporting Requirements (Wales) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  These Regulations relax a number of requirements on schools as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
• Modification of section 3 of the Education Act 1996 (Wales) Notice 2021
  Legislation
  Temporarily amends the definition of a pupil.
• Modification of School Organisation Code (Wales) Notice 2021
  Legislation
  This Notice temporarily modifies certain statutory requirements in the School Organisation Code from 8 January 2021 until 30 April 2021.
• Local COVID-19 Infection Control Decision Framework for schools from autumn 2021: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  An assessment of the Framework approach from September 2021.
• Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021
  Legislation
  These Regulations amend The Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 2003.
• Renew and Reform Programme: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  An assessment of how the Renew and Reform Programme impacts on learners as a result of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.