...inspection framework, short inspections for good schools and further education and skills (FES) providers, and the first inspections to be carried out by our new Ofsted Inspectors. Next week also...
...jointly with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). In January, we began carrying out our first inspections. The new framework aims to promote further improvement in the SEND system by strengthening...
...they can support prisoners with LDD. Getting screening right We were pleased to see that most pandemic-related backlogs in screening new prisoners for LDD have been resolved. Most prisons have...
Today, we’ve launched a new early years blog, for everyone who works in the early years sector. We will use the new blog to help raise understanding of different types...
...develop a valid concept of quality of education, which has informed what we inspect. We also use research to test new methodologies, such as the deep-dive approach we are using...
...happens when you federate, de-federate or dissolve) means that any current provision for under-2-year-olds needs a new registration maintained schools that become academies or re-broker: as with federations, explained above,...
...of their community and local economy. Many of the new apprenticeship providers that struggled to make reasonable progress had not sufficiently co-developed their curriculum with employers. I am, therefore, optimistic...
...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...
...some had not achieved what they needed to yet. They had trained staff, thought about the best resources to use and had often bought new reading schemes and books. In...
...that was essential to pupils’ understanding of new material. Several schools paid lots of attention to building up pupils’ knowledge of substantive concepts, such as empire, tax, trade and invasion....