Education Act 2005

Duty to provide information

Interpretation of Part 2

Supply of information: education maintenance allowances

Failure of parent to secure regular attendance of child at alternative provision

Further amendments relating to Part 4

Supply of information about school workforce

Efficiency studies

Destination of reports: non-maintained schools

Meaning of “denominational education”

Functions to be exercisable by National Assembly for Wales

Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Schools in England

Duty to notify parents of section 5 inspection

Duty to have regard to views of certain persons

Publication of inspection reports

Interpretation of Chapter 3

Investigations under section 11A

School organisation: further amendments

Functions of Agency in relation to Wales

Funding of maintained schools

Membership etc. of Agency

Duties of Chief Inspector where school causes or has caused concern

Functions of Agency

Inspections by members of the Inspectorate

Provision and funding of higher education in maintained schools

Supply of information about school workforce

Failure of parent to secure regular attendance of child at alternative provision

Power of Assembly to change inspection framework for Wales

Failure of parent to secure regular attendance of child at alternative provision

Repeal of School Inspections Act 1996

"10A

• (1) The Chief Inspector may make a statement (an “interim statement”) about a school in England to which section 5 applies.

• (2) An interim statement is a statement—

• (a) that the Chief Inspector is of the opinion that it is not necessary for the school to be inspected under section 5 for at least a year after the date on which the statement is made,

• (b) setting out the Chief Inspector's reasons for forming that opinion, and

• (c) containing such other information (if any) as the Chief Inspector considers appropriate.

• (3) The Chief Inspector may arrange for an interim statement to be published in such manner as the Chief Inspector considers appropriate.

• (4) Section 151 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (publication of inspection reports: privilege and electronic publication) applies in relation to an interim statement as it applies in relation to a report.

14A

• (1) The Chief Inspector must ensure that a copy of any interim statement about a maintained school is sent without delay to the appropriate authority for the school.

• (2) The Chief Inspector must ensure that copies of the statement are sent—

• (a) to the head teacher of the school,

• (b) to whichever of the local authority and the governing body are not the appropriate authority, and

• (c) in the case of a school having foundation governors, to the person who appoints them and (if different) to the appropriate appointing authority.

• (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (4) The appropriate authority must—

• (a) make a copy of any statement sent to the authority under subsection (1) available for inspection by members of the public at such times and at such places as may be reasonable,

• (b) provide one copy of the statement free of charge to any person who asks for one, and

• (c) take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that every registered parent of a registered pupil at the school receives a copy of the statement within such period following receipt of the statement by the authority as may be prescribed.

16A

• (1) The Chief Inspector must ensure that a copy of any interim statement about a school other than a maintained school is sent without delay to the proprietor of the school.

• (2) In the case of a special school which is not a community or foundation special school, the proprietor must without delay send a copy of any interim statement sent to the proprietor under subsection (1) to any local authority that are paying fees in respect of the attendance of a registered pupil at the school.

• (3) The proprietor of the school must—

• (a) make any statement sent to the proprietor under subsection (1) available for inspection by members of the public at such times and at such place as may be reasonable,

• (b) provide one copy of the statement free of charge to any person who asks for one, and

• (c) take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that every registered parent of a registered pupil at the school receives a copy of the statement within such period following receipt of the statement by the proprietor as may be prescribed.

Payment of fees into Consolidated Fund

Section 28 inspections by registered inspectors

Publication of proposals with consent of Secretary of State

Interpretation of Part 2

Functions of Agency

Membership etc. of Agency

Duty to provide information

LEA targets: England

Provision and funding of higher education in maintained schools

Power of governing body to make alternative provision for excluded pupils

Further amendments relating to Part 4

Subordinate legislation: general provisions

Reports of investigations

Duties of Chief Inspector where school causes or has caused concern

Measures to be taken by local authority

Destination of interim statements: non-maintained schools

Functions of Chief Inspector

Interpretation of Chapter 3

Interpretation of Chapter 3

Section 28 inspections by registered inspectors

Destination of reports: non-maintained schools

Meaning of “denominational education”

Inspections under sections 55 and 56: further provisions

Repeal of School Inspections Act 1996

Further amendments relating to school inspection

School organisation: further amendments

Repeal of School Inspections Act 1996

Further amendments relating to school inspection

Interpretation of references to training

General interpretation

School organisation: further amendments

Efficiency studies

Power of maintained schools to provide training for the school workforce

Provision and funding of higher education in maintained schools

Provision and funding of higher education in maintained schools

Functions of Welsh Ministers with respect to the school workforce

84A

In carrying out their duties under sections 10 and 11 of the Education Act 1996, the Welsh Ministers must in particular make such arrangements as they consider expedient for securing that sufficient facilities are available for the training of teachers to serve in—

• (a) schools maintained by local authorities in Wales,

• (b) institutions in Wales within the further education sector, and

• (c) institutions in Wales which are maintained by local authorities in Wales and provide higher education or further education (or both).

84B

• (1) The Welsh Ministers may promote careers in the school workforce in Wales.

• (2) The Welsh Ministers may exercise the power conferred by subsection (1) jointly with the Secretary of State or any other person with functions relating to careers in the school workforce.

• (3) The Welsh Ministers may make arrangements for the power conferred by subsection (1) to be exercised on their behalf by any other person.

• (4) Arrangements under subsection (3) may (in particular) make provision for that power to be exercised—

• (a) to the extent, and on the terms, specified in the arrangements;

• (b) generally or in such circumstances as are specified in the arrangements;

• (c) jointly with any person with whom it can be exercised jointly by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of subsection (2).

• (5) Arrangements under subsection (3) do not prevent the power conferred by subsection (1) from being exercised by the Welsh Ministers.

Interpretation of references to training

Failure of parent to secure regular attendance of child at alternative provision

Section 28 inspections by registered inspectors

Destination of reports: non-maintained schools

Inspections under sections 55 and 56: further provisions

Sixth forms requiring significant improvement in Wales

44A

• (1) Sections 44B to 44D apply to a maintained school in Wales which—

• (a) provides full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils over compulsory school age, and

• (b) provides full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils of compulsory school age.

• (2) For the purposes of those sections a school requires significant improvement in relation to its sixth form if—

• (a) the school is failing to give its pupils over compulsory school age an acceptable standard of education, or

• (b) in relation to its provision for pupils over compulsory school age, the school is performing significantly less well than it might in all the circumstances reasonably be expected to perform.

44B

• (1) Where a person inspecting a school under Chapter 3 is of the opinion that the school requires significant improvement in relation to its sixth form, the provisions specified in subsection (2) apply (with the necessary modifications) as they apply where the person is of the opinion that special measures are required to be taken in relation to the school.

• (2) Those provisions are section 34(1) to (6) (registered inspectors) or, as the case requires, section 35(1) of that Act (members of the Inspectorate).

44C

• (1) This section applies if in the course of an area inspection under section 83 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 the Chief Inspector forms the opinion that a school requires significant improvement in relation to its sixth form.

• (2) The Chief Inspector must make a report about the school stating that opinion.

• (3) The report is to be treated for the purposes of this Part as if it were a report of an inspection of the school under section 28.

44D

• (1) This section applies to a report of an inspection under Chapter 3 which—

• (a) states an opinion that a school requires significant improvement in relation to its sixth form, and

• (b) is made by a member of the Inspectorate or states that the Chief Inspector agrees with the opinion.

• (2) The person making the report must send a copy (together with a copy of the summary, if there is one)—

• (a) to the Welsh Ministers, and

• (b) if the person making the report is a member of the Inspectorate, to the appropriate authority for the school.

• (3) The following provisions apply (with the necessary modifications) in relation to a report to which this section applies—

• (a) section 38(3) (additional copies),

• (b) section 38(4) (publication by appropriate authority),

• (c) section 39 (action plan by appropriate authority), and

• (d) where the local authority receives a copy of a report about a school the governing body of which have a delegated budget, section 40(2) and (3) (measures by local authority).

• (4) In the application of those provisions—

• (a) a reference to a report and summary is to be taken as a reference to a report and, if there is one, its summary, and

• (b) a reference to a summary alone is to be taken, in a case where there is no summary, as a reference to the report.

44E

• (1) This section applies if in the course of an area inspection under section 83 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 the Chief Inspector forms the opinion that—

• (a) special measures are required to be taken in relation to a sixth form school, or

• (b) that a sixth form school requires significant improvement.

• (2) The Chief Inspector must make a report about the school stating that opinion.

• (3) The report is to be treated for the purpose of this Part as if it were a report of an inspection of the school under section 28.

• (4) A “sixth form school” is a maintained school which—

• (a) provides full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils over compulsory school age, and

• (b) does not provide full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils of compulsory school age.

44F

In sections 44A to 44E—

• “the appropriate authority”, in relation to a maintained school, means the school's governing body or, if the school does not have a delegated budget, the local authority;

• “the Chief Inspector” means Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales;

• “maintained school” means a community, foundation or voluntary school or a community special school;

• “member of the Inspectorate” means the Chief Inspector, any of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Education and Training in Wales and any additional inspector appointed under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2.

Inspections under sections 55 and 56: further provisions

Power of Assembly to change inspection framework for Wales

Provision of information

Repeals

Repeals

Inspections by members of the Inspectorate

Repeal of School Inspections Act 1996

Repeals

Provision and funding of higher education in maintained schools

Further amendments relating to Part 4