Consultation outcome

Inspection visits to further education and skills providers judged to require improvement

This consultation has concluded

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Inspection visits to further education and skills providers judged to require improvement: a report on the responses to the consultation

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Detail of outcome

The majority (65%) of respondents to our consultation supported our proposal to conduct a single monitoring visit of providers that require improvement, rather than support and challenge visits.

This report provides a breakdown of responses and sets out our next steps.


Original consultation

Summary

Proposed changes to how Ofsted visits further education and skills providers judged to require improvement.

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Consultation description

Ofsted is seeking your views on proposed changes to inspection visits to further education and skills providers who are judged to require improvement.

We currently carry out support and challenge visits to providers that require improvement, resulting in unpublished letters. We propose instead to carry out a single monitoring visit, which will result in a published report with progress judgements.

The consultation document and questionnaire

The consultation document provides background information on the proposal. You can access the consultation questionnaire in 2 formats:

  • the Word version of the questionnaire can be filled in by hand or on your computer
  • the PDF version of the questionnaire can be filled in by hand

You can also complete the questionnaire online.

Information sheet

The information sheet contains links to the consultation document and the online survey. It can be downloaded and shared electronically or printed.

Documents

Inspection visits to further education and skills providers judged to require improvement

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Inspection visits to further education and skills providers judged to require improvement

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Information sheet

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Published 10 November 2017
Last updated 28 February 2018 + show all updates
  1. Response to consultation published.

  2. First published.