The Nursery Education (England) Regulations 1998

Inspection reports

9.—(1) For the purposes of paragraph 13(1) of Schedule 1 to the Act, there is prescribed, as the period within which a report of an inspection under paragraph 6 of that Schedule is to be made, 25 days beginning on the day following that on which the inspection is completed.

(2) For the purposes of calculating the period prescribed by paragraph (1), no account shall be taken of Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday and Christmas Day or any day which is a bank holiday in England under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(1).

(3) In paragraph (4), “the local education authority” means the local education authority for the area in which the nursery education is provided and references to “any other local education authority” are references to any local education authority other than the local education authority.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph 13 (2) of Schedule 1 to the Act there are prescribed, as the authorities and persons to whom a copy of a report of an inspection shall be sent, the local education authority and—

(a) in the case of nursery education provided at a school maintained by a local education authority, the head teacher of the school and (except in the case of a nursery school) the school’s governing body;

(b) in the case of nursery education provided at a school having foundation governors, the person who appoints them;

(c) in the case of nursery education provided at a school whose instrument of government names a person as sponsor, that person;

(d) in the case of nursery education provided at an independent school, the head teacher of the school, the proprietors of the school, the Registrar of Independent Schools for England(2) and, where the school is approved by the Secretary of State under section 347 of the Education Act (approval of independent schools for children with statements), the funding authority, or any other local education authority if that authority are paying fees in respect of the attendance of a registered pupil at the school;

(e) in the case of nursery education provided at a special school which is not a maintained or grant-maintained special school, the head teacher of the school, the proprietors of the school and the funding authority, or any other local education authority if that authority are paying fees in respect of the attendance of a registered pupil at the school;

(f) in the case of nursery education provided by a local authority under section 18 of the Children Act 1989, the local authority and the person in charge of the place at which the education is provided;

(g) in the case of nursery provision provided by a person registered by a local authority under section 71(1)(b) of the Children Act 1989, that person and the registering authority;

(h) in the case of nursery education provided by a person who would be required to be so registered in that Act applied to the Crown, that person and the Secretary of State; and

(i) in the case of nursery education provided by a local authority at home to children with special educational needs, that authority.

(1)

1971 c. 80.

(2)

For the appointment of separate Registrars for England and for Wales see S.I. 1970/1536 and 1995/2896.