Ofsted

The broken link between exam results and Ofsted ratings

Schools Week analyses the relationship between Progress 8 scores and inspectors’ ratings

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Ofsted

7 things you need to know about Ofsted’s thematic reviews of AP

Ofsted will not make judgments about AP from thematic reviews, but serious concerns could lead to further inspection

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Ofsted

Ofsted won’t inspect schools on strike days

Teachers in the NEU are due to walk out on six days starting from February 1

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ditch grades, safeguarding audits: ASCL’s Ofsted inspection plan

The school leaders' union has set out wide-ranging proposals it says will help the watchdog win back the profession's...

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Ofsted

Failed SEND councils could get four-year reprieve

Introduction of new SEND inspection framework means revisits clock has been reset

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted admits its complaints policy ‘isn’t working’

Officials have been asked to make the process more human and less bureaucratic

Freddie Whittaker
John Dickens and Amy Walker
Ofsted

Ofsted annual report 2021-22: 11 things we learned

Watchdog issues warnings over uninspected schools, part-time timetables and its lack of powers over 'chaotic' and 'unsafe' illegal schools

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Ofsted

Ofsted: School workforce crisis ‘compounding’ catch-up problems

Recruitment and retention of staff must be 'urgently addressed'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Ofsted

MP: Ofsted sent ‘rogue hit squad’ to my child’s school

Philip Hollobone claimed the team sent to inspect Bishop Stopford School had a 'prearranged agenda'

Amy Walker
Amy Walker