The Education (Amendments Relating to the Inspection of Education and Training) (Wales) Regulations 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the—

(a) Education (Inspection of Nursery Education) (Wales) Regulations 1999,

(b) Inspection of Education and Training (Wales) Regulations 2001,

(c) Education (School Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 2006, and

(d) Inspection of Careers and Related Services (Wales) Regulations 2006,

so as to require Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales/Prif Arolygydd Ei Mawrhydi dros Addysg a Hyfforddiant yng Nghymru (“the Chief Inspector”) to ensure that inspections are conducted at least once within every six year period beginning on 1 September 2014. The amendments will allow the Chief Inspector greater scope to vary the date on which a school or education setting is inspected in order to reduce predictability of inspections. This will allow the Chief Inspector to inspect those schools that may be causing concern more frequently. In contrast if there was no such cause for concern the school may be inspected less frequently.

These Regulations further amend the—

(a) Inspection of Education and Training (Wales) Regulations 2001,

(b) Education (School Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 2006, and

(c) Inspection of Careers and Related Services (Wales) Regulations 2006,

so as to require the post inspection action plan to be produced within 20 working days from the date the appropriate authority for the school (the governing body or the local authority maintaining the school), or the proprietor (as the case maybe) receives the inspection report.

The Education (School Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 2006 require a school to give at least three weeks notice of a parents meeting held pursuant to its duty in paragraph 6(b) of Schedule 4 of the Education Act 2005. These Regulations remove the requirement that the notice be given at least three weeks in advance.