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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.
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.
ISI reports to the Department for Education on the extent to which these schools meet The Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014, [3] and on the quality of education provided. Most independent schools which are not members of the ISC are inspected by Ofsted. [4]
A report by the Education Select Committee in January called on the DfE and Ofsted to develop an alternative to the single-word judgments “as a priority” to better capture the “complex ...
Ofsted's report also said education had "become fractured and fragmented for too many children". It found "a small number of schools" allowed children to be flexi-schooled. However, because this ...
Dame Christine Gilbert has published her review in response to the coroner’s Prevention of Future Deaths report from the headteacher’s inquest. Ofsted’s first response to Ruth Perry’s ...
Estyn is the education and training inspectorate for Wales. Its name comes from the Welsh language verb estyn meaning "to reach (out), stretch or extend". Its function is to provide an independent inspection and advice service on quality and standards in education and training provided in Wales.
A coroner investigating Perry's suicide found that the Ofsted inspection of her school "contributed" to her death and found the inspection "lacked fairness, respect and sensitivity" and was at times "rude and intimidating"" [27] Perry's death had resulted in calls for one-word inspection judgements given by Ofsted to be scrapped, something ...