Ofsted launches a consultation on proposals for changes to the education inspection framework

16/01/19

Ofsted has today launched its consultation on how it inspects schools, early years settings and further education and skills providers, to take effect from September 2019.

The key proposals for consultation include:

• A new ‘quality of education’ judgement, with the curriculum at its heart
• Looking at outcomes in context and whether they are the result of a coherently planned curriculum, delivered well
• No longer using schools’ internal performance data as inspection evidence, to ensure inspection does not create unnecessary work for teachers
• Separate judgements about learners’ ‘personal development’ and ‘behaviour and attitudes’
• Extending on-site time for short inspections of good schools to 2 days, to ensure inspectors have sufficient opportunity to gather evidence that a school remains good

Click HERE for more information and to take part in the consultation.

The Association would urge members to contribute and to provide a response. The closing date is 4th April 2019.