...school that is reflective and receptive to challenge. By that, we mean that staff understand that keeping children safe is an ongoing endeavour and that there are always aspects of...
...leaders and managers made to make sure that apprentices receive high-quality training that leads to positive outcomes? Safeguarding. How much progress have leaders and managers made in ensuring that safeguarding...
...substance of education, rewarding those schools that do what’s right, who’ve really thought about what they offer and why, is something that we should, must and can do without delay....
...influence parents, but there was little evidence that they were having an impact or that they were what parents want. Eighty-three per cent of parents said that they had been...
...acknowledged that planning a curriculum needed thought, so any school or college that was still in the process of updating its curriculum could still receive a good grade, provided that...
...care. It also means acting on that information in our inspection and regulatory work. That is what we do, and that is why we do research and evaluation at Ofsted....
...distilling the debate into a few simple charts is not straightforward. That said, we do seek to shine a light on several wider factors that contribute to Ofsted’s overall effectiveness...
...I can see that pupils behave well and work hard. It is also clear that teachers ask probing questions that challenge pupils to think. Standards in English and mathematics seem...
...did the incidents happen? What can staff do to make that environment safer? It’s equally important that schools and colleges think about children’s safety outside of the school gates. Are...
...update, I said that we’d take stock of that grace period, to make sure that schools have the time to do what they need to do. We know that a...