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About us. Contents Who we are Our responsibilities Our priorities Corporate information. We report directly to Parliament and we are independent and impartial. Our priorities We will ensure that: all of our work is evidence-led our evaluation tools and frameworks are valid and reliable our frameworks are fair we aim to reduce inspection burdens and make our expectations and findings clear we target our time and resources where they can lead directly to improvement You can find out more about our priorities in the Ofsted to strategy.
Is this page useful? Maybe Yes this page is useful No this page is not useful. Ofsted see themselves as an evidence-informed entity that promotes and monitors best practice. There is a significant move to remove much of the burden associated with an inspection. The organisation wants to decrease unnecessary workload for anyone that encounters an inspection. A key role that Ofsted plays is the publishing of the reports that they carry out.
These are public documents and have the capacity to make or break a school system. If a school continually fails then the head teacher is at risk of being dismissed. Many of these dismissals are seen as unlawful and school governors have the power to sack senior leaders at very short notice.
The role of Ofsted is to promote excellent care and education in England. Reporting directly to the government, Ofsted pride themselves on being impartial and independent. The organisation also have the power to regulate any children and young people's service. Having a large workforce across eight different regions, the services Ofsted provide are extensive. They have an estimated inspectors and around employees. Many of these inspectors are head teachers of outstanding schools. If you are considering a career at Ofsted and do not want to relocate you are in luck.
A school inspector is typically required to travel frequently so that they can serve their allocated geographical region. Many of these inspectors balance full-time headships, which is demanding in itself. Positions are often advertised on civil service job sites and the Ofsted site directly. If you are ever concerned about the welfare of a child or young person, you can contact Ofsted anonymously and use their whistleblowing policy to report anything suspicious.
All schools in the UK will have procedures for dealing with concerns. Report formats are standardised and are fairly easy to understand. You can read the St Lukes School report to understand how the information is presented. Ofsted is a relatively new government organisation being formed in All state-funded schools from this point onwards began being inspected.
The agency was firmly established as an organisation that improves the quality of education across England. Over the years, the organisation has seen many leadership changes but its primary function has remained the same.
Many of the leadership team have gone on to gain peerages from the Queen such as Sir Michael Wilshaw. This year we have seen significant changes with the Ofsted inspection framework. These changes come into play for the academic year. It is worth school leaders taking a moment to fully understand the potential implications. We cannot take all of the guesswork out of the changes but we can shed light on certain areas. Following international research, Ofsted has announced that their new framework will come into effect in September.
The consultation on the current framework came to some powerful conclusions and on the whole, most providers at the receiving end of an inspection have been left nodding their heads in agreement. Here is a non-exhaustive list of their findings:. So what does this new focus on curriculum entail? What will Ofsted want to see? Ofsted have been investigating the features of a high-quality curriculum and come up with the following summary:. These and interrelated and therefore will be treated as one entity think of it as a Venn diagram.
This is best not viewed as a linear curriculum model that ends with the assessment component but rather as illustrating a process that is more finely tuned, whereby all three components are woven together.
This contentious area has been debated a lot on social media over the last year or so. Indeed the more you look into it, the clearer it becomes that the latest Ofsted developments are heavily influenced by the ideas of E. The British education system would not be the first to adopt his ideas. However, this system fell into disrepute because of inconsistent standards across the country and concerns about the independence of inspectors of local chief education officers and councillors.
The Office for Standards in Education Ofsted was formed under the Education Schools Act , as part of the major overhaul and centralisation of the school system begun by the Education Reform Act , which introduced the National Curriculum, extensive testing in schools and the publication of league tables.
Initially through the Section 9 inspections of the Act, and then Section 10 of the School Inspections Act , primary, secondary and special schools had been inspected in a four-yearly and subsequently six-yearly cycle. Ofsted increased its role with the overhaul of Further Education brought about by the Learning and Skills Act , which empowered it to inspect FE colleges and school sixth forms. Although the Act explicitly stated that Local Education Authorities were entitled to carry out their own inspections of schools under their control, LEAs themselves have been subject to inspection by Ofsted and the Audit Commission since During its early years, Ofsted was particularly controversial.
At least some of the difficulty for many years was attributed by many to the personal style of the confrontational Chief Inspector, Chris Woodhead, who ran the Office in its early years from until Mr Woodhead resigned in , claiming that he could not accept some of the educational policies of the Labour Government which had reappointed him in The inspection regime was amended in to reduce the burden on schools posed by inspections and to improve their efficacy.
From September that year schools had just two days notice of an inspection, compared to six to ten weeks previously, and were required to keep their own self-assessment reports which Ofsted could refer to. The aim was to reduce regulation on good schools while taking tougher action on those that were underperforming. A similar regime was introduced in early years services in April , although self-assessment was not a requirement, and in teacher training providers in September It was extended to the independent school sector in January , and planned for further education colleges later that year.
This expansion made Ofsted one of the largest regulatory and inspection bodies in England. The new post of Ofsted chair. According to a poll commissioned by the group ParentKind,
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