Commentary Part 1: School Inspections and Other Inspections by School Inspectors Chapter 4 – Procedure for Inspections under Chapter 3 Section 39: Statement to be prepared by appropriate authority
79.This section re-enacts with modifications section 17 of SIA 1996 in its application to Wales. It sets out the requirement on a school’s governing body or, where the school does not have a delegated budget, on the local education authority, to prepare a written statement of action setting out the steps they propose to take in the light of a report of any inspection under section 28, or any other inspection by HMI stating that special measures are required. New provision is made requiring a statement of action to be prepared also after other HMI inspections where the report states that the school requires significant improvement. Regulations made by the Assembly will set out the periods for preparing a written statement and the periods for sending them to specified persons, including the Assembly.