Ofsted

Ofsted tightens inspection early warning alert loophole

Watchdog has 'made changes to its processes around how, and when, inspectors access school websites'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

School leaders to get Ofsted support under ‘Caversham Covenant’

Heads in Southampton will get help to deal with ‘the strains of Ofsted’ in new scheme named after Ruth...

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Ofsted

Leaders at Ofsted’s first rapid revisit school resign over ‘traumatic’ inspections

Heads say new policy to speed up reinspections over safeguarding failures still had 'profound impact'

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

New Ofsted inspection pauses: how they would work

Inspections could be paused for up to five days over leader wellbeing concerns, new policy states

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Ofsted

Ofsted reforms to ensure ‘no more tragedies’

Watchdog formally responds to coroner's report as new chief vows 'no one should feel as Ruth did’

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

Ofsted Ruth Perry report response: What you need to know

Watchdog to explore standalone safeguarding judgment and narrowing gap between inspections and reports

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ofsted: 9 inspection reform recommendations from NAHT

Leaders' union calls for period of ungraded inspections and longer notice as deeper reforms are considered

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Ruth Perry’s sister ‘deeply concerned’ over inspection resumption

Waters also pushes new chief inspector to meet with three heads who had 'uncannily similar' ordeals to Ruth Perry.

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Ofsted

Ofsted promises to start recording inspection pauses in new era

Pledge comes after watchdog admits it holds no 'central record of the number of inspections that have been paused'

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey