22/07/2025 - 10:35
Ofsted has published its report and accounts for the 2024-25 academic year, during major disruptions, as school effectiveness grades were scrapped and new inspections are set to launch in November.
15/07/2025 - 10:38
Ofsted has announced several measures to reassure education providers about the quality of inspectors’ work, as the rollout for the revised framework in November draws closer.
27/06/2025 - 10:13
Ofsted has restructured its inspection teams for schools and further education, following feedback from the Big Listen last year and the recent consultation on inspection reform.
29/04/2025 - 09:35
The government’s Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) teams are expanding from the initial 32 schools to 200, which will benefit more than 120,000 children.
04/02/2025 - 10:19
Ofsted has launched its annual point-in-time outline surveys for several social care providers.
03/02/2025 - 11:22
Following a large-scale review of the education inspection framework (EIF) and the Big Listen to hear more from children, parents, and providers, Ofsted has published the findings from the EIF review, which investigated whether inspections were being carried out as intended.
03/02/2025 - 09:43
Ofsted have launched a consultation to ask parents, carers, professionals, and learners, on how best to inspect and report on education providers.
14/01/2025 - 10:05
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have published guidance for their next visits that will look at how well children with special educational needs and/ or disabilities (SEND) are being supported.
20/12/2024 - 09:36
Ofsted has published its first monitoring report on the 132 commitments made in the Big Listen, as well as the response to Dame Christine Gilbert’s independent learning review.
18/12/2024 - 09:32
Ofsted has published three more recordings of school inspector training materials, after the first collection was published earlier this term.
29/11/2024 - 10:09
Sir Martyn Oliver gave his first speech as Ofsted’s chief inspector at the annual National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC) in Liverpool
28/11/2024 - 10:43
Ofsted was due to make updates to the existing initial teacher education (ITE) framework for the 2024-25 academic year, but following a request by the Secretary of State, this has been postponed until the 2025-26 academic year.
16/09/2024 - 11:21
State-funded schools will not receive an overall effectiveness grade during graded inspections.
17/06/2024 - 10:57
Teachers overwhelmingly agree that preparing for and undergoing Ofsted inspections have a negative impact on staff mental health and wellbeing.
25/04/2024 - 11:55
The government has said that one-word Ofsted judgements for schools in England should remain.
