Consultation on changes to official statistics on independent schools
We're looking to make some changes to the content of our official statistics on non-association independent school inspections and outcomes in England.
To improve the quality and clarity of this publication, we intend to make the following changes to the data and publication from our next publication in November 2023.
Proposal 1: addition of new 바카라 사이트˜school type바카라 사이트™ category
We plan to add a new data field called 바카라 사이트˜school type바카라 사이트™ to each of the existing underlying datasets (D1a, D1b and D2) This will be used to categorise schools in the relevant aggregated data tables (replacing the 바카라 사이트˜type of education바카라 사이트™ field). 바카라 사이트˜School type바카라 사이트™ will split schools into the following 3 categories based on their type of education and faith grouping:
- 바카라 사이트˜independent special schools바카라 사이트™
- 바카라 사이트˜independent faith schools바카라 사이트™
- 바카라 사이트˜other independent schools바카라 사이트™ (that are not special and have not declared a faith ethos)
Proposal 2: providing revised underlying data for previous years
We plan to include an extra dataset (D3) containing 바카라 사이트˜revised바카라 사이트™ in-year data for standard and additional inspections. Revised data is the previous years바카라 사이트™ provisional data, plus all inspections from the previous year that were published after the cut-off deadline stated in our methodology. We will provide this data for all inspections from the Education Inspection Framework (EIF), that is, from 1 September 2019, up to a maximum of 5 academic years. We currently only provide this revised data in the following year바카라 사이트™s publication at an aggregate level.
Proposal 3: include previous inspection outcomes in the in-year inspection data
We plan to add data fields that include the school바카라 사이트™s previous standard inspection outcomes and associated data 바카라 사이트“ such as previous inspection date 바카라 사이트“ to the in-year inspections dataset (D1a). We currently include previous inspection details in our most recent inspections data (D2), but not the in-year data.
Proposed outcomes
These changes will allow:
- the proposed 바카라 사이트˜school type바카라 사이트™ categorisation for non-association independent schools to provide a better reflection of the schools inspected, and greater clarity to users
- more transparency by providing an additional dataset to include data about inspections that missed the publication cut-off for previous releases and the ability for users to easily replicate analysis from our statistics
Tell us your views
If you would like to comment on these changes, please email the independent schools statistics team by 8 September 2023.