Consultation outcome

Consultation on Ofsted’s role in the Online Education Accreditation Scheme

From:
Ofsted
Published
24 November 2021
Last updated
31 January 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Download the full outcome

Ofsted’s role in the Online Education Accreditation Scheme: a report on the responses to the consultation

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Detail of outcome

This is a report on the outcomes of the consultation on Ofsted’s proposed role in the Online Education Accreditation Scheme.

Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks views on how Ofsted should fulfil its role as the quality assurance body for the Department for Education (DfE)’s Online Education Accreditation Scheme.

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Consultation description

This consultation provides further detail about how Ofsted will fulfil its role as the quality assurance body for the Online Education Accreditation Scheme and asks several questions about our plans. Your feedback will help us to improve our plans and our draft handbook before the launch of the scheme in 2022.

In particular we are seeking views on our proposals for:

  • the suitability checks we plan to carry out
  • whose suitability we plan to check
  • assessing the quality of leadership in online providers
  • assessing methods of delivering online education
  • assessing cybersecurity arrangements in online providers

Documents

Consultation on Ofsted’s role in the Online Education Accreditation Scheme

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Equality, diversity and inclusion statement: Ofsted’s role as quality assurance body for the Department for Education’s Online Education Accreditation Scheme

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Draft handbook for quality assurance visits to online providers as part of the Online Education Accreditation Scheme

PDF, 1.11 MB, 30 pages

Published 24 November 2021
Last updated 31 January 2023 + show all updates

  1. Consultation response published.

  2. First published.