Ofsted: explore an area  

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Ofsted has a unique perspective on the various places that children and learners experience. We gain this through our inspections of schools and further education and skills providers, and through our additional powers as the regulator of children’s social care …

The role of data on school and further education inspections

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This week we released information sets to schools, further education providers and inspectors that help frame our inspection activity. These are called the Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR) for schools and Further Education and Skills Inspection Tool (FESIT) for further …

Our renewed inspection framework: what we’ve learned from pilots 

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Since September, we’ve carried out pilot inspections in 115 schools and taken time to carefully review the findings.  Overall, feedback on the renewed framework has continued to be really encouraging. Many providers described the toolkit and methodology as a positive …