Paragraph 2 Chief Inspector of Schools

(1)

This paragraph applies where the Chief Inspector of Schools conducts a review of children’s services^f1 in so far as those services relate to functions performed by a children’s services authority in their capacity as a local education authority.

(2)

A review of the children’s services referred to in sub-paragraph (1) may include an inspection of those services and—

(a)

sections 38(5) (conduct of inspections of local education authorities) and 40(2), (3) and (5) to (7) (inspector’s rights of entry etc.) of the Education Act 1997^f2 apply to such an inspection as they apply for the purposes of an inspection of a local education authority under section 38 of that Act; and

(b)

section 58 of the 2005 Act (inspection of computer records) applies to such an inspection as it applies for the purposes of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of that Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: “Children’s services” is defined in section 23(3) of the Children Act 2004 and the Children Act 2004 (Children’s Services) Regulations 2005, S.I. 2005/1972.
f2: 1997 c. 44. Section 38(5) is amended by paragraph 11 of Schedule 9 to the Education Act 2005; section 40 was substituted by section 180 of the Education Act 2002 (c. 32).