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Regulation 7 Reports, action plans and statements

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The carrying out of an inspection shall be completed by the expiry of the period of two weeks beginning when the inspection begins to be carried out.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph 9B(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Act and section 208(2) of the 1993 Act there is prescribed, as the period within which the making of the report of an inspection and a summary of the report is to be completed, the period of five weeks from the date on which the inspection is completed.

(3)

For the purposes of paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Act and section 210(2) of the 1993 Act there is prescribed, as the period within which the appropriate authority is to prepare an action plan,–

(a)

where the report does not state that the registered inspector is of the opinion that special measures are required to be taken in relation to the school, or where it does so and also states that the Chief Inspector disagrees with his opinion, the period of forty working days from the date when the inspector reported to them; and

(b)

where the person making a report of an inspection of a school states that he is of the opinion that special measures are required to be taken in relation to the school, and either that person is a member of the Inspectorate or the report states that the Chief Inspector agrees with his opinion, the period of forty days from the date on which they receive the report.

(4)
(a)

In the circumstances referred to in paragraph (3)(a) the appropriate authority shall, within five working days from the date on which they complete the preparation of the action plan, send copies of it to the persons mentioned in paragraph (5) (in addition to those persons to whom they are required to send copies pursuant to paragraph 10(3) and (4) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Act or section 210(3) and (5) of the 1993 Act, as the case may be).

(b)

In the circumstances referred to in paragraph (3)(b) the appropriate authority shall, within two days from the date on which they complete the preparation of the action plan, send copies of it to the persons mentioned in paragraph (5) (in addition to the persons mentioned in paragraph 10(3) and (4) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Act or section 210(3) to (5) of the 1993 Act, as the case may be).

(5)

The persons referred to in paragraph (4)(a) and (b) are–

(a)

all persons employed at the school;

(b)

in the case of a secondary school, the Training and Enterprise Council for the area in which the school is located; and

(c)

in the case of a special school not being maintained by a local education authority, or an independent school approved by the Secretary of State under section 11(3)(a) of the Education Act 1981, a further education funding council or any local education authority, if that body are paying fees in respect of the provision of education to any person at the school.

(6)

For the purposes of section 211(3) of the 1993 Act there is prescribed, as the period within which a local education authority is to prepare the statement referred to in section 211(2), the period of ten days from the date on which they receive the action plan in respect of the school in question.

(7)

For the purposes of calculating the periods referred to in paragraphs (3)(b), (4)(b) and (6) no account shall be taken of Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday and Christmas Day or any day which is a bank holiday.