The Education (School Inspection) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 1993

PART III INSPECTIONS OF DENOMINATIONAL EDUCATION

9.  In this Part of these Regulations–

“additional action plan” means the written statement referred to in paragraph 15(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Act;

“denominational education”, in relation to a school, means any religious education which–

(i)

is required by section 2(1)(a) of the Education Reform Act 1988 to be included in the school’s basic curriculum, but

(ii)

is not required by any enactment to be given in accordance with an agreed syllabus;

“inspection” means an inspection of school under section 13 of the 1992 Act(1) ; and

“inspector” means the person conducting the inspection.

Intervals for inspection

10.  Where the governing body of a voluntary or grant–maintained school are required by section 13 of the 1992 Act to secure that the denominational education given to any pupils or the content of the school’s collective worship (or both) are inspected they shall secure that that inspection takes place–

(a) (i) in the case of a secondary school, on or after 1st October 1993 and before 1st August 1998 (unless that inspection took place in September 1993);

(ii) in any other case, on or after 1st September 1994 and before 1st August 1999; and

(b) thereafter, in either case, within five school years from the end of the school year in which the last inspection took place.

Reports and additional action plans

11.—(1) An inspection shall be carried out during a period not exceeding two weeks.

(2) Within five weeks from the completion of the inspection or within seven weeks thereof where it is necessary to provide a translation into Welsh or English, the inspector shall prepare in writing a report of the inspection and a summary of the report.

(3) The governing body shall, within forty working days from the date when the inspector reported to them, or within forty–five working days thereof where it is necessary to provide a translation into Welsh or English, prepare an additional action plan.

(4) The governing body shall, within five working days from the date when they completed the preparation of the additional action plan, send copies of it together with any translation thereof to the following persons (in addition to the persons mentioned in paragraph 15(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Act)–

(a) all persons employed as teachers at the school;

(b) in the case of a grant–maintained school, the funding authority;

(c) in the case of a school in a group of grant–maintained schools in respect of which any person has power to appoint an externally appointed core governor under a provision of the instrument of government made in pursuance of Schedule 8 to the Education Act 1993, that person; and

(d) in the case of an aided or grant–maintained secondary school, the instrument of government of which names a person as a sponsor of the school, that person.

Fees for provision of the report and summary and of the additional action plan

12.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a governing body may require payment of a fee (not exceeding the cost of supply), where they provide:

(a) under paragraph 14(4)(b) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Act–

(i) a copy of a report to any person who asks for one;

(ii) a copy of a summary to any person to whom they have previously provided a copy of that summary; or

(b) under paragraph 15(3)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Act a copy of an additional action plan to any person–

(i) who is not otherwise entitled to receive a copy of that additional action plan and whose home or whose principal office is located outside a radius of three miles from the school; or

(ii) to whom they have previously provided a copy of that additional action plan.

(2) A governing body may not require payment by the funding authority of a fee under paragraph (1) where they provide to the funding authority a copy of a report or additional action plan in respect of a grant–maintained school and they have not previously provided a copy of that report or additional action plan to the authority.

(1)

Section 13(1) to (3) and (7) is amended with effect from 1st October 1993 by section 259 of the Education Act 1993