Ofsted will also aim to assess the impact of the pandemic on children’s physical, social and wider development. Recent research about the ‘ghost’ children missing from education after the pandemic makes sobering reading with 22% of children missing more than 10% of their schooling last year....
Inspectors’ school-level focus varied: from reading to areas for improvement (AFIs) from recent inspections, to the impact of the trust in the transformation of the school, to a focus on how school leaders lead within a trust setting. During the four-day inspection itself, the inspection...
In developing its new inspection framework, Ofsted must ensure it is backed up by robust evidence, writes Robin Bevan