The Education (School Inspection) Regulations 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations consolidate, with amendments, the Education (School Inspection) (No. 2) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1986) as amended by the Education (School Inspection) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1993, the Education (School Inspection) (No. 2) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1996 and the Education (School Inspection) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1997. These Regulations also amend the Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) Regulations 1994 to update the statutory references.

In addition to drafting amendments, these Regulations, which come into force on 1st September 1997, make the following changes—

(a) they prescribe the period of 10 working days from the date of receipt of the registered inspector’s report, as the period within which the appropriate authority (as to which see regulation 3) is to take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that every registered parent of a registered pupil at the school receives a copy of the registered inspector’s summary of his report of the school (regulation 7(3));

(b) they provide that the time period within which the governing body of a school that is required to secure inspections of denominational education or collective worship (or both), under section 23 of the School Inspections Act 1996, is extended by two years for second and subsequent inspections (see regulation 12). Regulation 12 also provides that, in the case of schools to which the inspection provisions in section 23 apply for the first time after the periods set out in regulation 12(2), the governing body shall secure an inspection within six years from the end of the school year in which that section first applies and thereafter that subsequent inspections take place within six school years from the end of the school year in which the last inspection took place.