...with SEND. These include: consulting on new inspection criteria for inclusion across education settings establishing the Ofsted Academy to improve SEND training and to recruit SEND specialists enhancing our inspections...
...know about them, early on, is really important. A new report from the charity Education and Employers makes the point that aspirations, quite simply, come from exposure to the job....
...inspections for good schools/providers. At events I attend, and also on Twitter, a few themes keep cropping up, so, I’ve put together 10 points below outlining what these new inspections...
...list of 300 schools are also in the new list of 340. Of those that dropped out, two thirds no longer meet the criteria of losing at least 5 pupils...
This post is now out of date. Please read our new post on inspection timescales which we published in June 2023. There’s been some speculation...
...you for that but I’d rather talk to/look at/hear…’ This is especially true of early years data on entry and progress. The new approach is much more about observing and...
...contributing to these difficulties. That’s why we were happy to support a new study by UCL’s Professor John Jerrim into this topic. Working with Ofsted and the Department for Education...
...family relationships, pupil support, and repeated positively framed messages in assemblies and newsletters. Further examples of good practice are provided in our report on securing good attendance and tackling persistent...
...questions about recruitment more widely, such as: How are posts advertised? Who sits on appointment panels and what training do they have? How are new staff inducted? We typically carry...
...way in which Ofsted is preparing for inspection in future. We are of course also considering implications of the new framework for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)....