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
- 13 September 2023
- Ofsted
Inspecting schools: guide for maintained and academy schools
- Detailed guide
- 1 September 2023
- Ofsted
How to become a contracted Ofsted inspector
- Detailed guide
- 10 January 2023
- Ofsted
Tell Ofsted you want to contract as an inspector
- Detailed guide
- 3 February 2023
- Ofsted
Contracted Ofsted inspectors for schools and further education and skills
- Detailed guide
- 19 January 2022
- Ofsted

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News and communications

Pupils in disadvantaged areas to benefit from new free schools
- 22 August 2023
- Department for Education
- Press release
Termination warning notice to Co-op Academy Grange
- 30 June 2023
- Department for Education
- Correspondence
Termination warning notice to Tudor Grange Academy Kingshurst
- 29 June 2023
- Department for Education
- Correspondence
Termination warning notice to Astrea Academy Woodfields
- 28 June 2023
- Department for Education
- Correspondence
Termination warning notice to Sir Martin Frobisher Academy
- 21 June 2023
- Department for Education
- Correspondence

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Research and statistics

State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 December 2022
- 30 March 2023
- Ofsted
- Official statistics
State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2022
- 15 December 2022
- Ofsted
- Official statistics
Initial teacher education: inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2022
- 29 November 2022
- Ofsted
- Official statistics
State-funded school inspections and outcomes as at 31 December 2021
- 31 March 2022
- Ofsted
- Official statistics
State-funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2021
- 25 November 2021
- 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

Department for Education

Ofsted