Citation, commencement and interpretation

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Independent Inspectorates (Education and Boarding Accommodation) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 8th September 2014.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989 ;

“the 2008 Act” means the Education and Skills Act 2008 ;

“independent inspectorate” means the person to be appointed or appointed as an inspector under section 87A of the 1989 Act or the body to be approved or approved to carry out inspections under section 106 of the 2008 Act.

Specified matters

2. The following matters are specified for the purposes of section 87A(4A) of the 1989 Act and section 106(4) of the 2008 Act—

(a) the number and range of schools or colleges which the independent inspectorate inspects, or is to inspect;

(b) the extent to which it is independent from the schools or colleges it inspects, or is to inspect;

(c) the extent to which it is independent from the body which established it (if any);

(d) its administrative, management, financial and insurance arrangements;

(e) its procedure and selection criteria for appointing inspectors;

(f) the terms on which it appoints its inspectors;

(g) the training which it provides, or will provide, to its inspectors;

(h) the process it follows, or will follow, in carrying out and reporting on inspections;

(i) the policy and procedures it has in place for the purpose of ensuring that inspectors carry out and report on inspections objectively;

(j) the arrangements for the provision and publication of reports of inspections it carries out;

(k) its complaints procedure;

(l) any assessment made of it by the Chief Inspector( 3 ); and

(m) the extent to which it has in place and operates arrangements to enable the Chief Inspector to carry out its functions under section 107 of the 2008 Act.