Guidance

Withdrawn: Handbook for short, monitoring and unannounced behaviour school inspections

Guidance for Ofsted inspectors carrying out school inspections under section 8 of the Education Act 2005.

From:

Ofsted

Published:

15 June 2015

Last updated:

17 July 2018

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17 July 2018
Added privacy notice information.
12 April 2018
Updated the requires improvement and special measures/serious weaknesses sections: section 5 inspections can take place up to 30 months after the last section 5 inspection for these categories. Good schools are inspected approximately every 4 years.
21 December 2017
Updated for changes to 'Requires improvement' monitoring and changes arising from the second consultation on short inspections.
13 October 2017
Update to the Short inspections of schools section reflecting the outcomes of a recent consultation; clarifications to the sections on Monitoring inspections; clarifications about engaging with those responsible for governance and inclusion of chief executives or equivalents in inspections of academies in multi-academy trusts; and updates reflecting changes to data reports (Analyse School Performance and the new inspection data summary reports or IDSR).
23 August 2016
Link to latest inspection blog post with summary of changes to handbook.
23 August 2016
Updated to reflect changes in legislation.
28 August 2015
Final document for use from September 2015 published.
15 June 2015
First published.

Applies to England

PDF, 702 KB, 62 pages

This relates to the common inspection framework, which we used until September 2019. We now inspect under the education inspection framework.

Anything relating to the old framework will remain online until October 2019 for reference purposes only.