Education and Inspections Act 2006

5 School improvement partners

(1) A local education authority in England must appoint, in relation to each maintained school which they maintain, a person (to be known as a school improvement partner) to provide advice to the governing body and head teacher of the school with a view to improving standards at the school.

(2) A person may not be appointed as, or remain, a school improvement partner unless he is for the time being accredited for the purposes of this section—

(a) by the Secretary of State, or

(b) by a person authorised by the Secretary of State to accredit persons for those purposes.

(3) Regulations may prescribe other requirements to be met by local education authorities in connection with the appointment of school improvement partners.

(4) Regulations may confer functions in relation to school improvement partners on local education authorities or on the governing bodies of maintained schools.

(5) Regulations may provide that in prescribed circumstances a person employed or engaged by a local education authority before the commencement of this section is to be taken to have been appointed by them as a school improvement partner.

(6) In this section—

• “maintain”, in relation to a maintained school, has the same meaning as in SSFA 1998;

• “maintained school” means—

  (a)

  a community, foundation or voluntary school, or

  (b)

  a community or foundation special school;

• “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations;

• “regulations” means regulations made by the Secretary of State.