...and harassment between children in schools and colleges. We have given more recent training to inspectors on the risks to children online, including bullying. We train all our inspectors to...
...well to government initiatives over time, including expectations around physical activity and healthy eating. But it was not clear that the specific interventions that schools make could, in themselves, overcome...
The last of our spring conferences for school inspectors took place on Friday 20th April. In total, around 1,600 inspectors attended the four conferences, with two held in Nottingham and...
...However, in other ways, each inspection is as unique as the school inspected. That’s why we particularly want to tailor our inspections in small schools. So, what should small schools...
Dan Owen, HMI Dan Owen HMI, Specialist Adviser for school inspection policy, discusses how inspectors evaluate off-rolling on school inspections. Off-rolling has received a lot of interest from the press...
...not to do fundamental research or to rack up academic publications. We intend for our work to be practical, policy-focused and accessible, and that is reflected in how we publish...
...our monitoring visits to requires improvement and inadequate providers. Full EIF inspections of new providers that have had an NPMV will also begin in the summer term. We will mainly...
...pops in for a keep-in-touch meeting, I ask the OI to share her observations. She appreciates the independent view of the unit’s success. Paperwork A key part of all inspections...
...should be truly inclusive. And by that, I mean inclusive in the real sense, including children and their parents: in decision-making in setting targets linked to the child’s education, health...
...a three-year lead-in programme to get our inspectors up to speed on what they need to know and look at when inspecting something like the curriculum. We’ll also be running...