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School Inspections Act 1996

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10Inspection of certain schools by registered inspectors

(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 7(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 7(2).

(3)Subject to subsection (4), 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 347(1) of the [1996 c. 56.] Education Act 1996 (approval of independent schools as suitable for admitting children with statements);

(f)city technology colleges;

(g)city colleges for the technology of the arts; and

(h)maintained nursery schools.

(4)This section does not apply to any school conducted by an education association in accordance with Part II.

(5)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.

(6)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.

(7)Subsections (1) and (2) have effect subject to section 12.

(8)An inspection which is required under this section shall not extend to—

(a)denominational education, or

(b)the content of collective worship which falls to be inspected under section 23.

(9)Schedule 3 to this Act makes further provision with respect to inspections under this section.

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