The Education (School Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 2006

Action Plans

10.—(1) For the purposes of section 39(2)(a) and 42(2)(a) there is prescribed, as the period within which an action plan is to be prepared in respect of a maintained school or a non-maintained special school, the period of forty five working days from the date on which the appropriate authority or proprietor of the school, as the case may be, received the report of the inspection.

(2) For the purposes of section 39(3) and (5) and section 42(3) and (4) there is prescribed, as the period within which the appropriate authority or proprietor are to distribute, in accordance with those enactments, copies of such an action plan prepared by them,—

(a) where the person making the report of the inspection does not state that he or she is of the opinion that special measures are required to be taken in relation to the school or that the school requires significant improvement, five working days from the date on which the appropriate authority or proprietor, as the case may be, completed the preparation of the action plan;

(b) where (in the case of a report by a registered inspector) the registered inspector states that he or she is of that opinion but it is also stated that the Chief Inspector disagrees with that opinion, five working days from the date on which the appropriate authority or proprietor, as the case may be, completed the preparation of the action plan; and

(c) where the person making the report states that he or she is of the opinion that special measures are required to be taken in relation to the school or that the school requires significant improvement, and either that person is a member of the Inspectorate or the report states that the Chief Inspector agrees with that opinion, two days from the date on which the appropriate authority or proprietor, as the case may be, completed the preparation of the action plan.

(3) For the purposes of section 39(3)(c) and 42(3)(c), where an action plan has been prepared in respect of a maintained school or non-maintained special school, the appropriate authority or proprietor, as the case may be, must send copies of it to the following (in addition to the persons mentioned in, as the case may be, sections 39(3) to (6) or 42(3) and (4))—

(a) in all cases, to all persons who are employed at the school and who have requested a copy; and

(b) in the case of a secondary school, to the National Assembly (if the Assembly is not otherwise entitled to a copy).

(4) For the purposes of calculating the period prescribed by paragraph (2)(c) no account is to be taken of Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday and Christmas Day or any day which is a bank holiday.