14/01/2025 - 10:05
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have published guidance for their next visits that will look at how well children with special educational needs and/ or disabilities (SEND) are being supported.
20/12/2024 - 09:36
Ofsted has published its first monitoring report on the 132 commitments made in the Big Listen, as well as the response to Dame Christine Gilbert’s independent learning review.
18/12/2024 - 09:32
Ofsted has published three more recordings of school inspector training materials, after the first collection was published earlier this term.
29/11/2024 - 10:09
Sir Martyn Oliver gave his first speech as Ofsted’s chief inspector at the annual National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC) in Liverpool
28/11/2024 - 10:43
Ofsted was due to make updates to the existing initial teacher education (ITE) framework for the 2024-25 academic year, but following a request by the Secretary of State, this has been postponed until the 2025-26 academic year.
16/09/2024 - 11:21
State-funded schools will not receive an overall effectiveness grade during graded inspections.
17/06/2024 - 10:57
Teachers overwhelmingly agree that preparing for and undergoing Ofsted inspections have a negative impact on staff mental health and wellbeing.
25/04/2024 - 11:55
The government has said that one-word Ofsted judgements for schools in England should remain.
05/04/2024 - 10:54
Ofsted has updated its policies for making complaints about inspections, saying they will aim to handle providers' concerns more "fairly, thoroughly and efficiently."
03/04/2024 - 09:36
Over 80 per cent of survey respondents believe Ofsted should be replaced with a new system of inspection
04/12/2020 - 09:54
Ofsted will carry out a thematic survey on the implementation of T levels and the T-level transition programme.
17/03/2020 - 14:09
Ofsted has temporarily suspended all routine inspections of schools, alongside that of further education and early years providers.
16/03/2020 - 09:35
Nine out of ten school leaders believe that the current Ofsted inspection system fails to consistently judge the performance of schools.
21/01/2020 - 12:28
Amanda Spielman has criticised schools for putting their own interests ahead of their pupils’, accusing them of continuing to ‘game’ the system.
02/10/2019 - 12:05
More than 1,000 'outstanding' schools in England have not been inspected for more than 10 years.
