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The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education, training and childcare services in England do so to a high standard for children and students.
Ofsted publishes reports on the quality of education, learning outcomes, management, and safety and behaviour of young people at a particular school on a regular basis. Schools judged by Ofsted to be providing an inadequate standard of education may be subject to special measures, which could include replacing the governing body and senior ...
Routine inspections were suspended between March 2020 and September 2021 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, and replaced by a limited number of remote reviews. During the suspension, the Department for Education retained the right to commission Material Change Visits, Additional Inspections and Progress Monitoring Visits.
Ofsted, the schools inspection agency for England and some British Overseas Territories, and Estyn, the schools inspection agency for Wales, apply the term special measures (Welsh: mesurau arbennig) [1] to schools under their jurisdictions when they consider the school has failed to provide an acceptable standard of teaching, has poor facilities, or otherwise fails to meet the minimum ...
Schools and colleges will only be inspected if there are safeguarding concerns, the Department for Education has said. Skip to main content. News. Search. Need help? Call us! 800-290-4726. Login ...
In June 2021 an Ofsted inspection graded the school as "inadequate" and placed it into special measures. [32] Religious education was absent from the school's curriculum and its harsh testing regime was criticised for overworking teachers (exams were held each half term).
The Education (Schools) Act 1992 (c. 38) set up a system of school inspections by the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted). The reports written by independent inspection teams and published by Ofsted are made public and the inspections are carried out according to a National Framework to ensure consistency across the country.
The Department for Education released a new National Curriculum for schools in England for September 2014, which included 'Computing'. [22] Following Michael Gove 's speech in 2012, [ 23 ] the subject of Information Communication Technology (ICT) has been disapplied and replaced by Computing.