Education Act 2005 : Elizabeth II. Chapter 18

This Act contains five parts and 19 schedules and includes provisions: to reform school inspections in England in order to introduce a new system of more regular, lighter touch inspections, with powers for the National Assembly for Wales to introduce similar reforms in the future; to extend in England and Wales the circumstances in which a local education authority must invite proposals for a new or replacement secondary school; to broaden the objectives of the Teacher Training Agency; and miscellaneous provision relating to maintained schools, information sharing and attendance for excluded pupils at alternative education provision.