Commentary on provisions of Act Section 5: Workless households and educational attainment reporting obligations
This section places a duty on the Secretary of State to report annually against measures of worklessness and educational attainment in England. The detail of these measures and related definitions will be taken directly from relevant official statistics so far as practicable, as defined by section 6(1) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.
	The section requires the Secretary of State to lay a report before Parliament annually setting out data on the measures of worklessness and education.
	The section requires the worklessness measures to be based, so far as practicable, on data published in relevant official statistics, such as the Office for National Statistics release currently titled "Working and Workless households". The report will identify the proportion of children living in workless households (i.e. where no adult is in employment), and the proportion of children in long-term workless households (i.e. where no adult has been in employment for at least the last 12 months).
	The section also requires the educational attainment measures to be based, so far as practicable, on data published in relevant official statistics, such as the Key Stage 4 attainment data published by the Department for Education, in the Statistical First Release currently titled "GCSE and equivalent attainment by pupil characteristics".