Education Act 2005

Additional inspectors E+W

2 (1) The Chief Inspector may arrange for such persons as he thinks fit to assist him in the discharge of his functions in relation to a particular case or class of case.

(2) Any person assisting the Chief Inspector under any such arrangements is to be known as an additional inspector.

(3) The Chief Inspector must ensure that additional inspectors have the necessary qualifications, experience and skills to assist him in the effective discharge of his functions.

(4) In pursuance of the duty imposed by sub-paragraph (3), the Chief Inspector must publish in such manner as he thinks fit, and may from time to time revise, a statement of—

(a) the qualifications or experience (or both) that are to be required of additional inspectors who are not members of his staff, and

(b) the standards that such additional inspectors are to be required to meet in the exercise of their functions and the skills that they are to be required to demonstrate in the exercise of those functions.

(5) Any arrangements which provide for assistance by persons who are not members of the Chief Inspector's staff must be made on terms that require the person with whom the arrangements are made to secure compliance with any requirements that are from time to time published under sub-paragraph (4).

(6) If the Chief Inspector has entered into arrangements with persons who are not themselves additional inspectors (“inspection service providers”) for the provision by the inspection service providers of the services of inspectors, the Chief Inspector must publish, at intervals of not more than 12 months, a list of the names of those persons who, as at a specified date, are currently notified to him by any inspection service provider as persons with whom the inspection service provider proposes to make arrangements for the carrying out of inspections on behalf of the Chief Inspector.

(7) An additional inspector acting within the authority conferred on him by the Chief Inspector has all the powers of one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in England.

(8) The Chief Inspector may not authorise an additional inspector to conduct an inspection of a school under section 5 unless—

(a) the inspection is to be supervised by one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in England, or

(b) the additional inspector has previously conducted an inspection under that section under the supervision of one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in England (“the supervising inspector”) to the satisfaction of the supervising inspector.