Provision of school action plans2

In section 17 of the Act (duty of appropriate authority for county, voluntary, maintained special, grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school to provide copies of statement of action following school inspection), after subsection (6) there shall be inserted—

6A

The duty under subsection (6)(c) shall be taken to be satisfied by the appropriate authority if they—

a

take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that every registered parent of a registered pupil at the school receives, as soon as is reasonably practicable, a copy of a document prepared by them which—

i

summarises the statement, and

ii

contains a statement of the right to request a copy of it under paragraph (b) below, and

b

provide a copy of the statement to every registered parent of a registered pupil at the school who asks for one.