{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-regulations-1997/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1966",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Inspection) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Action Plans",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of sections 17(2)(a) and 21(2)(a) of the 1996 Act there is prescribed, as the period within which the appropriate authority are to prepare an action plan, the period of forty working days from the date on which they receive the report.\n(2) For the purpose of section 17)(3) and (4) and section 21(3) and (4) of the 1996 Act there is prescribed, as the period within which the appropriate authority are to distribute in accordance with those enactments copies of an action plan prepared by them—\n(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, five working days from the date on which the appropriate authority complete the preparation of the action plan; and\n(b) where the person making the report 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,\n(i) two days from the date on which the appropriate authority complete the preparation of the action plan; or\n(ii) two days from the expiry of the period prescribed by paragraph (1),\nwhichever first occurs.\n(3) Where an action plan has been prepared by the appropriate authority they shall send copies of it (in addition to the persons mentioned in section 21(3) and (4) of the 1996 Act or subsections (3) and (5), or (3) to (5), of section 17 of the 1996 Act, as the case may be) as follows—\n(a) in all cases, to all persons employed at the school;\n(b) in the case of a secondary school, to the Training and Enterprise Council for the area in which the school is situated; and\n(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 347(1) of the Education Act 1996, to 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.\n(4) For the purposes of calculating the period prescribed by paragraph (2)(b) no account shall be taken of Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday and Christmas Day or any day which is a bank holiday.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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/8",
    "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."
}