Children, Schools and Families Act 2010 (c. 26)

Part 3 Miscellaneous and final provisions

Miscellaneous

22 Amendments of provisions about complaints in ASCLA 2009

(1) In Part 10 of ASCLA 2009 (schools), Chapter 2 (complaints: England) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 207 (power of Local Commissioner to investigate complaint), in subsection (5)(b) (power not to investigate vexatious complaint), before “vexatious” there is inserted “frivolous or”.

(3) In section 216 (law of defamation)—

(a) in subsection (1)(a), after “a governing body” there is inserted “or head teacher”;

(b) in subsection (2)(a), after “the governing body” there is inserted “or head teacher”.

23 Fees for pre-registration inspections of independent educational institutions

In section 111 of ESA 2008 (fees for inspections of independent educational institutions by Chief Inspector), in subsection (6) (institutions to which the section applies), for “any registered independent educational institution that is not” there is substituted “any independent educational institution that is registered, or is the subject of an application to be registered, other than”.