Education and Skills Act 2008

73 Educational institutions: access and facilities

(1) The responsible person in relation to an educational institution in England, must, on a request by a person involved in the provision of services in pursuance of section 68 or 70(1)(b)—

(a) permit that person to have access to a pupil or student attending the institution on the institution’s premises at reasonable times, and

(b) make available to that person, so far as is reasonably convenient, facilities on the institution’s premises for providing services to individual such pupils or students or groups of such pupils or students.

(2) A request under subsection (1) by a person involved in the provision of services in pursuance of section 68 or 70(1)(b) may be made only for the purposes of the provision of those services.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), “educational institution” and “responsible person” have the same meanings in subsection (1) as in section 72.

(4) In relation to a pupil referral unit for which there is a management committee established by virtue of paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Education Act 1996 (c. 56), “responsible person” means that committee.