Improving the way Ofsted inspects education
Applies to England
Consultation description
Are you a parent or carer?
We want to hear what you think about our plans for clearer, easier-to-read report cards. Watch this video to see an example.
Consultation overview
We want to know what you think about our proposed plans for inspecting schools and other settings where children and adults learn. This includes:
- early years
- state-funded schools
- non-association independent schools
- further education聽and skills (FE and skills)
- initial teacher education (ITE)
In summary, we propose:
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Report cards聽바카라 사이트� these would give parents and carers more detailed information than the current reports, including a new 5-point grading scale to evaluate more areas of a provider바카라 사이트檚 work and short summaries of what inspectors found.
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Education inspection toolkits聽바카라 사이트� this tool shows providers and inspectors the evaluation areas that we바카라 사이트檒l focus inspections on and how we바카라 사이트檒l assess and grade providers (scroll down to see our toolkits).
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Inspection methodology聽바카라 사이트� changes to how we carry out inspection.
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Full inspections and monitoring inspections, state-funded schools聽바카라 사이트� we plan to end ungraded inspections of state-funded schools and change our monitoring programmes so that we can check that timely action is taken to raise standards.
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Identifying state-funded schools causing concern聽바카라 사이트� a new approach to how we바카라 사이트檒l place a school into a category of concern.
Share your views
The Department for Education is consulting separately on proposed changes to intervention and support in maintained schools and academies. Share your views.
Supporting documents
Alongside the consultation document, we바카라 사이트檙e also publishing:
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separate proposed toolkits for early years, state-funded schools, non-association independent schools,聽FE聽and skills and聽ITE
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an equality impact assessment
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an implementation review of the current education inspection framework
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a list of references highlighting the statutory guidance, non-statutory guidance, professional standards and research papers used to inform the proposed toolkits and proposed inspection methodology