Education Act 2005

59 Combined reports

(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),

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

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

(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.

(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 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.