Education Act 2005

59 Combined reports E+W

(1) For the purposes of this section “the inspection enactments” are—

(a) this Part,

(b) Part 10A of the Children Act 1989 (c. 41) (child minding and day care for children[F1 in Wales] ),

(c) section 122 of, and Schedule 26 to, the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31) (inspection of nursery education[F2 in Wales] ), F3 ...

(d) Chapter 1 of Part 10 of the Education Act 2002 (c. 32) (regulation of independent schools),[F4 and

(e) Chapters 2 and 3 of Part 3 of the Childcare Act 2006 (regulation of early years and later years provision in England).]

(2) Where, following inspections conducted under two or more inspection enactments by one person or two or more different persons, that person is (or those persons are) required to make a report under each of those enactments, nothing in any of those enactments is to be regarded as preventing him (or them) from—

(a) including those reports in a single document (“a combined report”), and

(b) to such extent as he considers (or they consider) appropriate, combining the substantive reports required by those enactments.

[F5 (2A) Subsection (2) does not apply so as to authorise the making of a combined report by the Chief Inspector for England (as to which section 152 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 applies instead).]

(3) Where a combined report is made, any reference in the inspection enactments to the publication of a report, or to the giving, or making available, to any person of a copy of a report is to be read so far as necessary as a reference to the publication of the combined report, or to the giving or making available to that person of a copy of the combined report.

(4) The Chief Inspector [F6 for Wales]may arrange for a combined report to be published in any manner he considers appropriate, but this subsection does not limit any duty as to publication imposed by any of the inspection enactments.

[F7 (5) In this section—

• “ the Chief Inspector for England ” means Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills; and

• “ the Chief Inspector for Wales ” means Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales. ]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 59(1)(b) inserted (1.9.2008) by Childcare Act 2006 (c. 21), s. 109(2), Sch. 2 para. 44(a); S.I. 2008/2261, art. 2 (with Sch. 1)

F2 Words in s. 59(1)(c) inserted (1.9.2008) by Childcare Act 2006 (c. 21), s. 109(2), Sch. 2 para. 44(b); S.I. 2008/2261, art. 2 (with Sch. 1)

F3 Word in s. 59(1)(c) repealed (1.9.2008) by Childcare Act 2006 (c. 21), s. 109(2), Sch. 2 para. 44(c), 3 Pt. 2; S.I. 2008/2261, art. 2 (with Sch. 1)

F4 S. 59(1)(e) and word inserted (1.9.2008) by Childcare Act 2006 (c. 21), s. 109(2), Sch. 2 para. 44(d); S.I. 2008/2261, art. 2 (with Sch. 1)

F5 S. 59(2A) inserted (1.4.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), ss. 157, 188, Sch. 14 para. 105(2); S.I. 2007/935, art. 5(w)(gg)

F6 Words in s. 59(4) inserted (1.4.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), ss. 157, 188, Sch. 14 para. 105(3); S.I. 2007/935, art. 5(w)(gg)

F7 S. 59(5) inserted (1.4.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), ss. 157, 188, Sch. 14 para. 105(4); S.I. 2007/935, art. 5(w)(gg)

Commencement Information

I1 S. 59 wholly in force at 1.9.2006; s. 59 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 125; s. 59 in force for E. at 3.10.2005 by S.I. 2005/2034, art. 6; s. 59 in force for W. at 1.9.2006 by S. I. 2006/1338, art. 3, Sch. 1