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Section 9 Inspection of certain schools.I1C1

England and Wales

C2(1)

It shall be the duty of the Chief Inspector for England to secure that every school in England to which this section applies is inspected, at such intervals as may be prescribed, by an inspector registered under section 10(1).

(2)

It shall be the duty of the Chief Inspector for Wales to secure that every school in Wales to which this section applies is inspected, at such intervals as may be prescribed, by an inspector registered under section 10(2).

(3)

The schools to which this section applies are—

(a)

county schools;

(b)

voluntary schools;

(c)

special schools;

(d)

grant-maintained schools;

(e)

independent schools approved by the Secretary of State under section F1189(1) of the Education Act 1993 (approval of independent schools for children with statements)

(f)

city technology colleges;

(g)

city colleges for the technology of the arts;

(h)

maintained nursery schools.

(4)

It shall be the general duty of any registered inspector conducting an inspection under this section to report on—

(a)

the quality of the education provided by the school;

(b)

the educational standards achieved in the school;

(c)

whether the financial resources made available to the school are managed efficiently; and

(d)

the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils at the school.

(5)

In prescribing the intervals mentioned in subsections (1) and (2) the Secretary of State may make provision as to the period within which the first inspection of a school under this section is to begin.

(6)

An inspection which is required under this section shall not extend to denominational education F2or to the content of collective worship which falls to be inspected under section 13.

(7)

Part I of Schedule 2 makes further provision with respect to inspections under this F3Act.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in s. 9(3)(e) substituted (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 307(1), Sch. 19 para. 173(1)(a); S.I. 1994/507 art. 4, Sch.2 (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 3 Pt. II)

F2

Words in s. 9(6) inserted (1.10.1993) by 1993 c. 35, s. 307(1), Sch. 19 para. 173(1)(b); S.I. 1993/1975, art. 4(4).

F3

Word in s. 9(7) substituted (1.9.1993) by 1993 c. 35, s. 307(1), Sch. 19 para. 173(1)(c); S.I. 1993/1975, art. 4(3).

Modifications

C1

S. 9 excluded (1.1.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 227(4); S.I. 1993/3106, art. 4, Sch. 1, Sch. 2 Pt. II.

C2

S. 9(1)(2) modified (1.9.1993) by 1993 c. 35, s. 205(3); S.I. 1993/1975, art. 7.

Commencement

I1

S. 9 wholly in force; s. 9(7) not in force at Royal Assent see s. 21(3); s. 9(7) in force for certain purposes at 31.8.1992 by S.I. 1992/1157, art. 2, Sch.; s. 9(7) in force for certain further purposes at 1.5.1993 by S.I. 1993/1190 art. 3; s. 9 in force so far as it is not already in force at 12.6.1993 by S.I. 1993/1491, art. 3(1)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act (except ss. 16, 17, 21(5) and Sch. 4 paras. 1, 4-6) repealed (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 57, ss. 47(2), 48(2), Sch. 7