Part 1School inspections and other inspections by school inspectors

Chapter 7Supplementary

59Combined reports

(1)

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

(a)

this Part,

F1(b)

Part 2 of the Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010 (child minding and day care for children),

(c)

section 122 of, and Schedule 26 to, the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31) (inspection of nursery educationF2in Wales ), F3...

(d)

Chapter 1 of Part 10 of the Education Act 2002 (c. 32) (regulation of independent schoolsF4in Wales), F5F6...

(e)

Chapters 2 and 3 of Part 3 of the Childcare Act 2006 (regulation of early years and later years provision in England)F7, and

(f)

Chapter 1 of Part 4 of the Education and Skills Act 2008 (regulation of independent educational 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.

F8(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 F9for Walesmay 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.

F10(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.