Education and Inspections Act 2006

144 Power of entry

(1) This section applies to an inspection conducted by the Chief Inspector under section 143.

(2) The Chief Inspector may, at any reasonable time, enter for the purposes of the inspection—

(a) any premises occupied by CAFCASS,

(b) any premises occupied by any organisation with whom arrangements have been made under section 13 of the 2000 Act (other powers of CAFCASS) in respect of the performance of any CAFCASS functions, and so occupied in connection with the performance of any such functions, or

(c) any premises occupied by any individual in connection with the performance of functions of an officer of the Service in accordance with arrangements under that section.

(3) Subsection (2) does not confer a power of entry to any part of any domestic premises.

(4) In this section and section 145 “officer of the Service” is to be construed in accordance with section 11(3) of the 2000 Act (establishment of CAFCASS).

(5) In this section “the 2000 Act” means the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43).