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.
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Northern Ireland, and that any amendment or repeal made by the Act has the same extent as the enactment amended or repealed.[2]
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 This Act repealed the provisions of the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.
extends the responsibilities of the TDA to include continuing professional development for teachers and schools and raising standards of teaching, in addition to its existing role of promoting teaching as a career
sets out the circumstances under which the TDA will work in Wales under the authority of the National Assembly for Wales
sets out the financial framework within which the TDA will work