Home education: a choice or last resort?
Home education is often being chosen by parents of children with complex needs as a last resort Children leaving secondary school to be home-educated often…
Ofsted
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.
Carefully planned curriculum intent can help deal with social disadvantage
It’s really important that providers get a clear view that curriculum intent is only one part of the whole thing about the quality of education,…
Prosecution means protection: investigating and prosecuting unregistered schools
Prosecution means protection: investigating and prosecuting unregistered schools Prosecution means protection: investigating and prosecuting unregistered schools Posted by: Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:…
Knife crime: safeguarding children and young people in education
Ofsted carried out a research project on knife crime in education. This report sets out our findings and recommendations. Safeguarding children and young people in…
Responses to Ofsted research into knife crime
#KnifeFree – The provider-level responses from London schools to our knife crime survey. Documents London knife crime survey responses ODS, 15KB This file is in…
Ofsted is empowering teachers to deal with low level bad behaviour
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has made the below statement, welcomes Ofsted’s plans to help the Department tackle low level bad behaviour in schools. Secretary of…
Off-rolling: an update on recent analysis
Off-rolling: an update on recent analysis Off-rolling: an update on recent analysis Posted by: Jason Bradbury, Posted on: 6 September 2019 – Categories: Data and…
What’s changing at Ofsted in autumn 2019?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byaUliCMi9E&list=PLLq-zBnUkspPXjODb3PJ4gCqNc2LvfhSh You may notice some changes to some of the Ofsted services and GOV.UK pages. Here’s a round-up of these changes. The new framework The…
Guidance: Early years inspection handbook
Ofsted guidance on inspecting registered early years and childcare providers under the education inspection framework. Documents Early years inspection handbook for Ofsted registered provision PDF,…
Detailed guide: Inspecting schools: guide for maintained and academy schools
This guide gives a summary of what schools should expect and what they need to do as part of an Ofsted inspection. Contents Introduction Timings…