This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Early Years Quality Care and Learning Manager, Sharon Lindsay, for the attention of Early Years and Schools.
Following a period of consultation and review Ofsted has launched a new education inspection framework that will take effect from September 2019. The new arrangements have a quality of education judgement, designed to put the curriculum, at the heart of professional dialogue.
Ofsted have published the outcome of their consultation on our new education inspection framework, along with a suite of new items. Please find the list of updated hyperlinked documents below:
- Early years inspection handbook
- Further education and skills inspection handbook
- School inspection handbook
- Section 8 school inspection handbook
- Independent schools inspection handbook
- Education inspection framework
- Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills (update only)
- Consultation outcome, the research background 'Inspecting the curriculum: revising inspection methodology to support the education inspection framework', and our equality, diversity and inclusion statement.