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The nuance of reliability studies

Posted by: Amy Finch, Head of Strategic Evaluation, Posted on: 20 August 2019 - Categories: Education inspection framework, Research and evaluation, social care

Amy Finch, our Head of Strategic Evaluation, sets out Ofsted’s work on evaluating the reliability of inspection.

Child neglect: how are schools addressing the issue?

Posted by: Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on: 26 September 2018 - Categories: Schools, social care

Sean Harford, National Director, Education on the findings of Ofsted's report, 'Growing up neglected'.

New complaints scrutiny panels

Posted by: Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on: 12 April 2016 - Categories: Common inspection framework, Early years, Further education & skills, Schools, social care

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 …