{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006/section-61.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/40",
  "legislation_title": "Education and Inspections Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006",
  "path": "section/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "School requiring significant improvement",
  "text": "A maintained school is by virtue of this section eligible for intervention if—\n(a) following an inspection of the school under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of EA 2005, the Chief Inspector has given notice under section 13(3)(a) of that Act in a case falling within section 13(1)(b) of that Act (school requiring significant improvement), and\n(b) where any subsequent inspection of the school has been made under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of that Act, the notice has not been superseded by—\n(i) the person making the subsequent inspection making a report stating that in his opinion the school no longer requires significant improvement, or\n(ii) the Chief Inspector giving the Secretary of State a notice under section 13(3)(a) of that Act in a case falling within section 13(1)(a) of that Act (school requiring special measures).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 61, 62 applied by S.I. 2007/2979, Sch. 1 para. 23C(1A) (as inserted (27.6.2016) by The Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/608), regs. 1, 3(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 61 in force at 1.4.2007 by S.I. 2007/935, art. 5(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/40/section/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:59.347958+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}