Part VIII Miscellaneous

Boarding schools and colleges

109 Inspection of schools etc. by persons authorised by Secretary of State.

(1)

Section 80 of the 1989 Act (inspection of children’s homes etc. by persons authorised by Secretary of State) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1), in paragraph (l), for “independent school” there shall be substituted “ school or college ”.

(3)

In subsection (5)—

(a)

in paragraph (d), at the end there shall be inserted “ or governing body of any other school ”;

(b)

after that paragraph there shall be inserted—

“(da)

governing body of an institution designated under section 28 of the M1Further and Higher Education Act 1992;

(db)

further education corporation;”

and

(c)

after paragraph (i) there shall be inserted—

“(j)

person carrying on a fostering agency.”

(4)

After subsection (12) there shall be inserted—

“(13)

In this section—

“college” means an institution within the further education sector as defined in section 91 of the M2Further and Higher Education Act 1992;

“fostering agency” has the same meaning as in the Care Standards Act 2000;

“further education corporation” has the same meaning as in the M3Further and Higher Education Act 1992.”