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Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Regulation and Social Care, discusses plans to pilot the use of serving social care practitioners as Ofsted Inspectors (OIs).
Responses to questions asked at our webinars and details of new upcoming webinars about governance, EIF inspections in special schools and how schools are inspected.
Amanda Spielman, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, writes about the importance of reading – and the need to help struggling readers as they start secondary school.
Yvette Stanley, our National Director Regulation and Social Care, discusses the progress we have made in our plans for regulating supported accommodation, as we seek to recruit inspectors.
A new report looks at the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s social care.
Ofsted has today published the third set of briefings in a series looking at the pandemic’s continued impact on education providers.
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