Long title | An Act to make provision about the inspection of schools, child minding, day care, nursery education and careers services; to make other provision about school education; to make provision about the training of persons who work in schools and other persons who teach, about the supply of personal information for purposes related to education and about the attendance of children at educational provision outside schools; and for connected purposes. |
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Citation | 2005 c 18 |
Territorial extent | England and Wales, except that sections 108 and 109, section 124, so far as relating to those sections, and the other provisions of Part 5, except sections 119 and 122 and 123, also extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland, and that any amendment or repeal made by the Act has the same extent as the enactment amended or repealed. [2] |
Dates | |
Royal assent | 7 April 2005 |
Text of statute as originally enacted | |
Revised text of statute as amended |
The Education Act 2005 (c 18) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was enacted in order to simplify the process of school improvement, strengthening the accountability framework for schools, in particular by amending the approach used by Ofsted when inspecting schools in England. This Act repealed the provisions of the School Inspections Act 1996.
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