Commentary Part 1: School Inspections and Other Inspections by School Inspectors Chapter 4 – Procedure for Inspections under Chapter 3 Section 37: Duty to notify where inspection shows maintained school causing concern
77.This section re-enacts with modifications section 16A of SIA 1996 as it applies to Wales, with changes to terminology as set out at section 44, and to the arrangements for notifying the local education authority when a maintained school receives a designation. Where an inspection of a maintained school identifies that the school requires significant improvement or special measures, the Chief Inspector is required to inform the Assembly and the local education authority of this immediately in writing. Thus, the local education authority will in future receive such notification direct from the Chief Inspector, rather than as at present from the Assembly.