{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-regulations-1997/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-regulations-1997/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1966",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Inspection) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Meeting with parents",
  "text": "The appropriate authority, in arranging a meeting pursuant to paragraph 6(b) of Schedule 3 to the 1996 Act, shall—\n(a) arrange for the meeting to take place at a time before the time when the inspection is to begin;\n(b) in selecting the time and place for the meeting, have regard to the convenience of the parents;\n(c) take such steps as are reasonably practicable to give written notification at least three weeks in advance of the time when, and place where, the meeting is to be held to—\n(i) the parents of registered pupils at the school and, if a registered pupil is a child who is looked after by a local authority, a person appearing to the appropriate authority to be an appropriate officer of that local authority; and\n(ii) in the case of a special school not being a school maintained by a local education authority, or an independent school approved by the Secretary of State under section 347(1) of the Education Act 1996, a further education funding council or any local education authority, if that body is paying fees in respect of the provision of education to any person at the school and a parent of that person so requests;\n(d) not permit anyone to attend the meeting except—\n(i) the registered inspector and the inspection team;\n(ii) any person whom the registered inspector wishes to attend the meeting for the purpose of providing administrative support or recording what is said;\n(iii) the parents of registered pupils at the school and, if a registered pupil is a child who is looked after by a local authority, a person appearing to the appropriate authority to be an appropriate officer of that local authority;\n(iv) in the case of a special school not being a school maintained by a local education authority, or an independent school approved by the Secretary of State under section 347(1) of the Education Act 1996, a person appearing to the appropriate authority to be an appropriate officer of 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 and a parent of that person so requests;\n(v) any member of the Inspectorate monitoring the inspection under section 3(2) of the 1996 Act;\n(e) arrange for the registered inspector to have control of the meeting in all other respects.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2545",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (School Inspection) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/783",
      "affecting_title": "The Learning and Skills Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments) (Schools) (England) Regulations 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1966/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:31.712578+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."
}