Inspection of maintained schools and academies

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

Guidance and regulation

School inspection handbook
- Guidance
- 16 September 2024
- Ofsted
Inspecting schools: guide for maintained and academy schools
- Detailed guide
- 7 October 2024
- Ofsted
Contracted Ofsted inspectors for schools and further education and skills
- Detailed guide
- 26 June 2025
- Ofsted
How to become a contracted Ofsted inspector
- Detailed guide
- 10 January 2023
- Ofsted
Payments for contracted Ofsted inspectors
- Detailed guide
- 26 June 2025
- Ofsted

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News and communications

St Giles Academy (Lincolnshire): warning notice
- 18 July 2025
- Regional Department for Education (DfE) Directors
- Correspondence
Magdalen College School (Brackley): warning notice
- 11 July 2025
- Regional Department for Education (DfE) Directors
- Correspondence
Havant Academy (Hampshire): warning notice
- 8 July 2025
- Regional Department for Education (DfE) Directors
- Correspondence
LIPA Sixth Form College (Liverpool): warning notice
- 27 June 2025
- Regional Department for Education (DfE) Directors
- Correspondence
St Peter's CofE Primary School (Cleethorpes): warning notice
- 24 June 2025
- Regional Department for Education (DfE) Directors
- Correspondence

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Research and statistics

State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 December 2024
- 20 March 2025
- Ofsted
- Official statistics
State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2024
- 26 November 2024
- Ofsted
- Official statistics
Teacher development: inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2024
- 14 November 2024
- Ofsted
- Official statistics
State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 December 2023
- 14 March 2024
- Ofsted
- Official statistics
State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2023
- 14 November 2023
- Ofsted
- Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

Education inspection framework 2019: inspecting the substance of education
- 29 July 2019
- Ofsted
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 05 April 2019
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

Responses to post-inspection surveys: inspections and visits between 1 September 2019 and 31 March 2020
- 24 July 2020
- Ofsted
- Transparency
Analysis of Ofsted good and outstanding schools
- 11 July 2019
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Academy trusts: notices about poor performance
- 8 February 2019
- 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

Ofsted

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