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Inspection of maintained schools and academies

How schools maintained by local authorities are inspected: handbooks, guidance for schools and parents, grades, letters.

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Guidance and regulation

• How Ofsted inspects maintained schools and academies

  Detailed guide

  6 August 2018

  Ofsted

• Common inspection framework: education, skills and early years from September 2015

  Guidance

  28 August 2015

  Ofsted

• Handbook for short, monitoring and unannounced behaviour school inspections

  Guidance

  17 July 2018

  Ofsted

• Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 4
  • Guidance
  • 30 May 2018
  • Ofsted
• How Ofsted selects new schools for inspection
  • Guidance
  • 6 August 2018
  • Ofsted

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News and communications

11 October 2018 — Correspondence

Termination warning notice to William Lovell Church of England Academy

Department for Education

1. Termination warning notice to Sandymoor Free School
   • 13 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Correspondence
2. Amanda Spielman's speech to the Policy Exchange think tank
   • 9 July 2018
   • Ofsted
   • Speech
3. Termination warning notice to Beechen Cliff School
   • 5 July 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Correspondence
4. Amanda Spielman at the Education Policy Institute conference
   • 3 July 2018
   • Ofsted
   • Speech

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Research and statistics

• Changes to Ofsted’s statistical reporting of inspection outcomes for state-funded schools: an analysis of the changes
  • 27 June 2018
  • Ofsted
  • Official statistics
• State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 March 2018
  • 26 June 2018
  • Ofsted
  • Official statistics
• Maintained schools and academies inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2017
  • 3 April 2018
  • Ofsted
  • Official statistics
• Maintained schools and academies inspections and outcomes as at 31 March 2017
  • 25 October 2017
  • Ofsted
  • Official statistics
• Maintained schools and academies inspections and outcomes as at 31 December 2016
  • 22 March 2017
  • Ofsted
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Changes to Ofsted’s statistical reporting of inspection outcomes for maintained schools and academies 15 March 2018

  Ofsted

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 18 January 2018

• Publication of statistics on maintained schools and academies: inspections and outcomes 28 August 2015

  Ofsted

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 29 July 2015

• 2012 maladministration investigation procedures
  • 1 October 2012
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Academy trusts: notices about poor performance
  • 24 September 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Children in good or outstanding schools: August 2018
  • 9 August 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Analysis of Ofsted outcomes for sponsored academies since 2010
  • 5 December 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Department for Education

1. Ofsted