Paragraph 1

In this Part of this Schedule—

• “appropriate authority” means—

  1. (a)

     in the case of a maintained school (other than a grant-maintained school) whose governing body does not have a delegated budget, the local education authority for that school;

  2. (b)

     in the case of a school falling within paragraph (e), (f) or (g) of section 9(3), the proprietor of the school;

  3. (c)

     in any other case, the school’s governing body;

• F1“inspection by a member of the Inspectorate” means a section 9 inspection carried out by a member of the Inspectorate or an inspection under section 2(2)(b), 3(1), 6(2)(b) or 7(1),

• “member of the Inspectorate” means the Chief Inspector, any of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools in England or, as the case may be, Wales and any additional inspector, and

• “section 9 inspection” means an inspection under section 9,

and for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, special measures are required to be taken in relation to a school if the school is failing or likely to fail to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education.