...robust process to make sure that they are justified. Avoiding this is not fair to pupils or parents. How does Ofsted play a part in tackling off-rolling? Ofsted puts children’s...
...to take her book home to share as a ‘special treat’. In Reception, all children learn to read from the very beginning. Any child struggling to remember their sounds or...
...what to do if they come across, or are worried about, peer-on-peer abuse. They should know who to speak to and what action to take to make sure children are...
...to expand our methods toolbox further. Across research and evaluation projects, we are committed to transparency on methods, rigour in how we work and full adherence to ethical guidelines. Future...
...In this blog, we set out how we take these factors into consideration when we inspect small schools. We will emphasise how we adapt what we do. We know that...
...the changes we have made to inspection, we want a school, nursery, childminder or college’s context to be taken into account when we evaluate how the provider is meeting the...
...also included in our updated state‑funded schools toolkit, to inform how we inspect school-based nurseries and maintained nursery schools. Remember, all changes to the toolkits only apply from September 2026....
...to be working a bit more normally too – going back into schools and having conversations with leaders and teachers on inspection about how they’re helping children to catch up....
...duty to inspect every school back into force. We are glad to be seeing what’s happening for children, having conversations with teachers, and building on what we learned through our...
...leaders and managers did not give enough attention to the skills and behaviours that apprentices wish to develop, or to their longer-term career goals too many apprentices were accomplishing little...