Improving the way Ofsted inspects education

Ofsted want to know what you think about their 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 and skills (FE and skills)
• initial teacher education (ITE)

In summary, they propose:

• Report cards – 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 provider’s work and short summaries of what inspectors found.
• Education inspection toolkits – this tool shows providers and inspectors the evaluation areas that we’ll focus inspections on and how we’ll assess and grade providers (scroll down to see our toolkits).
• Inspection methodology – changes to how we carry out inspection.
• Full inspections and monitoring inspections, state-funded schools – 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.
• Identifying state-funded schools causing concern – a new approach to how we’ll place a school into a category of concern.

Read the full report and respond to the consultation.