We’re all clear that Ofsted’s role is to inspect and report on the quality of education and training. The feedback from an inspection is designed to help further education and...
...person-centred thinking and practice. To achieve the best possible outcomes, it’s important for us to train our inspectors to listen carefully to children, young people and families to understand their...
Watching inspections and checking that the process is working well is part of my role as a Senior HMI. I shadow inspections of our new Ofsted Inspectors (OIs) to review...
...to the inspection time frame, so I wanted to explain what this means in a bit more detail. Effective immediately, we are: extending the usual timeframe within which good schools...
...we established that there was reasonable cause to believe an unregistered school may be operating in around 250 cases. These settings were all inspected, with inspectors identifying safeguarding concerns in...
Hopefully, those of you who keep in touch with my updates here and my Twitter activity will have noticed that one of my main preoccupations in the last year has...
...far? I’ll need to make a decision soon on whether to convert to a full inspection to gather any additional evidence I need and carry on tomorrow. There’s more evidence...
...not to let this opportunity go by. It’s much better to have an honest discussion about something than try to return to it later. The lead inspector should make sure...
...full representation of schools across the country or of every different type of school, but it does allows us to gain some insight into different approaches to curriculum design and...
...in schools giving neglected children better access to education and helping them begin to achieve their potential. Examples of additional support include counselling and one-to-one support to help children improve...