Section 116: Repeal of requirement to appoint a Children’s Rights Director
470.Subsection (1) repeals the provision in the Education and Inspections Act 2006 which required the Chief Inspector to appoint a Children’s Rights Director.
471.Subsection (2) amends provisions in that Act to take account of this change and, in particular, to place requirements on the Chief Inspector and the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) to have regard to any matters raised by the Children’s Commissioner. In general, the purpose of these provisions is to ensure that the views and interests of children within the Children’s Rights Director’s remit continue to inform the work of the Chief Inspector and the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills but they will also extend more generally to cover any matters raised by the Children’s Commissioner.
472.Subsection (3) introduces Schedule 6, which provides for the Secretary of State to make a scheme enabling certain staff and property to be transferred from Ofsted to the staff of the Children’s Commissioner.