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Dan Lambert, Her Majesty’s Inspector, on an ungraded inspection

Posted by: Dan Lambert, Posted on: 14 March 2018 - Categories: curriculum, inspection, schools
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...to find out about their training and its quality. I ask them if they know what to do if they have concerns about pupils. I talk to pupils to see...

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Keeping children safe in education and Ofsted’s role

Posted by: Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on: 18 January 2017 - Categories: safeguarding

...guidance set by the Department for Education (DfE). And it is the DfE’s statutory guidance that schools need to refer to. If a school’s safeguarding arrangements do not meet these...

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