Explanatory note

These Regulations make transitional provision for the preparation for the exercise of functions by the Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (“the Chief Inspector”).

These Regulations modify section 116(1)(a) of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”) so that the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (“the Office”) may determine during the preparatory period (see regulation 1(2)) the strategic priorities for the Chief Inspector in connection with the performance of her functions and the strategic objectives and targets relating to such priorities when section 118 of the 2006 Act comes into force.

Schedule 11 to the 2006 Act is modified so that during the preparatory period (see regulation 1(2)) the references to the Chief Inspector in paragraphs 1, 6(2) to (4) and 12(2) and (3) have effect as if they were references to the Chief Inspector of Schools in England, and the performance of the Chief Inspector’s functions were likewise that of the functions of the existing Chief Inspector.

Regulation 3 confers a general duty on the existing Chief Inspector to ensure that all necessary arrangements are in place by the date on which section 118 of the 2006 Act comes into force, so that the new Chief Inspector may assume the functions conferred on her under Part 8 of that Act with effect from that date.