The outcomes of the Ofsted consultation into the education inspection framework, in use from September 2019

1. Education inspection framework:
Inspecting the substance of education
The consultation outcomes
Non-associated independent schools
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2. Today’s session
▪The Ofsted strategy and the new framework
▪The consultation findings
▪The judgement areas
▪Responses to independent school specific consultation
questions
▪Recurrent themes in responses
▪Questions
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3. Ofsted strategy 2017–22
▪ The curriculum at the heart of inspection.
▪ No need to produce progress and attainment
data ‘for Ofsted’, helping reduce unnecessary
workload.
▪ All pupils should have access to a high-quality
education.
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‘A force for improvement through intelligent,
responsible and focused inspection and regulation’
The new framework

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Inspection experience
26 years of inspecting education
Most research-informed framework
Research shared publicly
Largest ever number of pilot inspections
More than 250 pilot inspections
Sharing draft inspection handbooks
First time we’ve consulted on the handbooks
Consultation
Ofsted’s biggest ever consultation
Development

5. The consultation responses
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6. Education inspection framework: the consultation outcomes Slide 6
The consultation responses
▪More than 15,000 responses
▪Almost 11,000 responses to online
questionnaire
▪Over 600 email responses
▪Over 4,000 responses as a result of a campaign
by YoungMinds
▪Over 150 face-to-face engagement events
▪Over 400 people joined external webinars
16 January–5 April 2019

7. The judgement areas:
quality of education
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▪ curriculum design, coverage, appropriateness
and delivery
▪ teaching (pedagogy)
▪ assessment (formative and summative)
▪ attainment and progress
(including national tests and assessments)
▪ reading
▪ readiness for the next stage of education.
Quality of education judgement
The new quality of education judgement puts the real substance of
education, the curriculum, at the heart of inspection.
Inspectors will have a connected, educationally focused conversation,
incorporating:

9. ▪ Three-quarters of
respondents agreed or
strongly agreed with this
proposal.
▪ Many respondents were
pleased with the proposed
focus on the curriculum
rather than an over-focus
on performance data.
▪ Many parents were
pleased with the direction
of travel.
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Quality of education: what people said
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Strongly
agree
Agree
Neither agree
or disagree
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Overall percentage of respondents

10. Education inspection framework: the consultation outcomes Slide 10
What we are
doing in response
▪ Introducing a new ‘quality of
education’ judgement from
September 2019.
▪ The inspection handbooks have
been updated to set out how
this key judgement will be
inspected in different contexts.
▪ Introducing a transition
period, which will be reviewed
after a year.

11. Inspection model for quality of education
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12. Education inspection framework: the consultation outcomes
What will be
included in the
deep dives?
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Discussions
with pupils
Discussions
with
teachers
Discussions
with
curriculum
leaders
Visits to a
connected
sample of
lessons
Scrutiny of
pupils’
work
Discussions
with senior
leaders

13. The judgement areas:
‘personal development’ and
‘behaviour and attitudes’
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14. Separate judgements for ‘personal
development’ and ‘behaviour and attitudes’
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Personal
development,
welfare and
behaviour
Personal
development
Behaviour and
attitudes

15. Separating the judgements: what people said
▪ Nearly eight in 10
respondents supported
introducing separate
judgements.
▪ A strong majority of
respondents from all education
sectors supported this proposal.
▪Concerns were raised by some
that the proposed ‘behaviour
and attitudes’ judgement would
fail to reflect the realities of
education providers working in
challenging circumstances.
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13
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3
1
Strongly agree
Agree
Neither agree
or disagree
Disagree
Strongly
disagree
Don't know
Overall percentage of respondents

16. Slide 16
What we are doing in response
Education inspection framework: the consultation outcomes
▪ Introducing two new, separate
judgements: ‘personal development’ and
‘behaviour and attitudes’.
▪ Recognising the importance of pastoral
care.
▪ Revising the grade descriptors to address
concerns around how bullying will be
inspected.

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New inspection judgements
Quality of education
Personal
development
Behaviour
and attitudes
* Leadership
and
management
Overall effectiveness
* Inspection of independent school standards (ISS)

18. Changes to the inspection of schools
with a specialist curriculum
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19. When a specialist curriculum is on offer, we proposed that the non-
specialist curriculum will normally be inspectors’ primary
source of evidence when reaching a judgement on quality of
education.
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Inspection of specialist curriculums
Evidence from the specialist curriculum will be
considered if a school chooses to deliver a
substantial number of the required subject
areas through the specialist curriculum, or if the
non-specialist curriculum provides insufficient
evidence.

20. Inspection of specialist curriculum:
what people said
▪ More than half of respondents
supported the proposal and
fewer than one in five were
against it.
▪ Opinions on how the specialist
curriculum should be inspected
were more mixed.
▪ Those who offered a specialist
curriculum tended to be more
negative .
▪ Many providers who supported
the idea, liked the idea of being
inspected under the same criteria
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Strongly
agree
Agree
Neither agree
or disagree
Disagree
Strongly
disagree
Don't know
Overall percentage of respondents

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What we are doing in response
We have updated the inspection handbook to:
▪ make clear that when schools offer a specialist curriculum,
inspectors will work with leaders to understand how
the curriculum as a whole is structured and where they
can evidence that the quality of education criteria are
demonstrated
▪ clarify that the section on the specialist curriculum is not
intended to describe the approach we will take to
inspecting independent special schools. There is a
separate section in the handbook that sets out how the EIF
will apply to independent special schools.

22. Changes to additional inspections
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Changes to additional inspections
▪If the Department for Education commissions
us to carry out additional inspections, we
check whether the ISS are met but do not
make new graded judgements.
▪A school retains its previous graded
judgements, even if it has improved and is
now meeting the ISS, or has declined and is
no longer meeting them.
▪Recognising and acknowledging sooner when
additional inspection finds a school has
improved or declined.

24. Additional inspections: what people said
▪ There was very strong
support for this proposal,
more than three-quarters of
respondents agreed or
strongly agreed.
▪ There was particular support
for this proposal among
parents.
▪ fewer than one in 10
respondents disagreed with
the proposal.
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5
4
5
Strongly
agree
Agree
Neither agree
or disagree
Disagree
Strongly
disagree
Don't know
Overall percentage of respondents

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What we will do in response
▪We will proceed with plans to provide
up-to-date judgements about a
non-association independent school’s
performance after an additional
visit.
▪The change will be implemented
from September 2020.

26. Recurring themes in responses
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27. Leaders must have a clear and ambitious vision
for providing high-quality, inclusive education and
training to all.
Reference to specific learners

28. SEND considerations continue to be an important aspect of
inspection. Feedback has helped to make this aspect stronger.
Revisions made to inspection handbooks about what
inspectors will take into account include:
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▪ complex vulnerabilities of some pupils, which may
mean additional safeguarding challenges
▪ whether reasonable adjustments have been made
▪ the starting point for SEND pupils
▪ expectations for pupils achievement
▪ expectations when looking at behaviour and
attitudes.
Special education needs and disabilities

29. Mental health
The education inspection framework is
built around the factors that have the
greatest protective effect for all children:
▪ a good education
▪ high-quality pastoral care
▪ a culture that promotes a strong
connection between children and
learners and their community (in this
case, their school or provider).
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Early years in schools
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We have:
▪ reviewed the judgement criteria for early years provision
in the schools inspection handbook to make sure there is
emphasis for early years provision for younger children, while
clarifying when criteria applies to Reception-age children
▪ added clarification in the schools inspection
handbook to confirm the approach to inspecting
a maintained nursery school under the new framework
▪ included specific guidance to inspectors if independent
schools have an exemption for aspects of early years provision.

31. Documents the consultation has
informed
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32. Documents the consultation has informed
Responses to the consultation have informed the final drafts
of the following documents, which have been published
alongside the consultation report:
▪ Education inspection framework
▪ Early years inspection handbook
▪ Maintained schools and academies section 5 inspection handbook
▪ Maintained schools and academies section 8 inspection handbook
▪ Non-association independent schools inspection handbook
▪ Further education and skills inspection handbook
▪ Equality, diversity and inclusion statement.
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33. Thank you
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