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New complaints scrutiny panels

Boy looking through magnifying glass

Back in June last year, when Ofsted announced the changes to inspection under the common inspection framework, we also explained how we intended to strengthen the way we deal with complaints about inspection. In September, we introduced independent scrutiny to …

Government proposals for Ofsted inspections

teacher in class

Many of you will have read or heard about the Government’s White Paper: Educational Excellence Everywhere, published last week, announcing the transformation of England’s schools. I thought it would be helpful to clarify what it could mean for inspection.

New academic year, new start for education inspection

Pencils and pens in pots

As summer comes to an end it is back to work for many of us, be that for schools, colleges or nurseries.  I hope that everyone is refreshed for the coming year, even if you haven’t been able to get …

How Ofsted can support leaders taking on struggling schools

Sean Harford

Back in the early hours of a Wednesday morning in May, through the ever helpful medium of Twitter, I posed the following question: ‘Mainly but not exclusively for HTs or aspiring HTs: what could Ofsted do to incentivise you to