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NATSPEC Annual Conference
Hard times or great expectations?
Gill Reay SHMI
Birmingham
March 2015
The next 40 minutes
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An ISC up date
The future of inspection post September 2015
Study programmes
Local areas effectiveness in fulfilling their duties
under the new Act.
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Overall effectiveness of further education and
skills providers inspected between 1 September
2013 and 31 August 2014
All colleges (133)²
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General further education/tertiary
college (81)
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Sixth form college (31)
6
Independent specialist college (21)
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5
29
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76
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100
20
Higher education institution (10)³
Academy 16-19 converter/ free
schools 16-19 (4)
Community learning and skills provider
(71)
5
33
National Careers Service provider (6)
Independent learning provider (140)⁴
29
80
25
3
25
50
59
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30
69
Outstanding
Good
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Requires improvement
Inadequate
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Future of Education
Inspection
Update
‘Better inspection for all’ consultation
New Common Inspection Framework (CIF)
Maintained
schools and
academies
Further
education
and skills
Short inspections for
good providers
Early
Years
Nonassociation
independent
schools
Two-year-old
offer
Baseline
exercise
Direct contracting of inspectors and changes to workforce
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New Common Inspection Framework
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for schools, non-association independent schools, further education
and skills providers and registered early years providers.
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under it – four graded judgements across all remits.
 leadership and management;
 teaching, learning and assessment;
 personal development, behaviour and welfare;
 outcomes for children and learners.
and greater emphasis on safeguarding and curriculum.
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will provide greater clarity, coherence and comparability
for users, learners, parents and employers.
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‘Better inspection for all’ consultation
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Very large response:
 4,400 through the online consultation
 330 attendees at regional events
 115 parents and 180 pupils at focus groups.
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Responses highly positive – our proposals supported
by all groups.
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Short inspection pilots – to test the methodology.
Positive feedback. More pilots taking place.
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Taking on board – views from the consultation and
feedback from the pilots.
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Short inspections for good providers
Frequent, shorter inspections for good schools, academies
and further education and skills providers – approximately
every three years.
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More proportionate: the right sort of inspections at the right time.
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Help support rising standards with greater professional dialogue.
Designed to check if the quality of provision is being sustained,
and leaders have the capacity to drive improvement?
Regular reporting to parents, carers, learners and employers.
Identify decline early and give schools and providers opportunity to
demonstrate improvement sooner.
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Changes to the way we work
To prepare for September, we are:
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making significant changes in how we source, train, contract and
manage all inspectors who deliver schools and FES inspections.
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tightening up selection criteria that all inspectors have to meet
developing structures for closer working relationships between:
 contracted Ofsted Inspectors (OIs)
 Her Majesty’s Inspectors (HMI)
 Senior HMI
to share knowledge and experience of inspections.
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Preparing for inspection – next steps
February
2015
Consultation response report published
Assessed training for contracted Ofsted inspectors
From March
2015
Recruitment of new OI and HMI where required
June
2015
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Common Inspection
01422 311 300 Framework published
Supporting handbooks for each remit published
Good practice materials published
National launch events held
July/August
2015
Further training for all inspectors
September
2015
Inspections under new arrangements start
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Study programmes
The 16-19 study programme
The underpinning principles of the study programme, which
requires that:
§ all providers of 16-19 education and training should
develop well-designed individual study programmes that
offer 16-19 learners progression to a higher level of
study than their prior attainment to meet clear
educational and career aspirations.
The 16-19 study programme
§ Study programme principles apply to students with
learning difficulties and /or disabilities
§ Programmes should prepare for adulthood and support
progression to work or further study
§ Study programmes apply up to 25
§ English and mathematics
The inspection of local areas’ responsibilities for
disabled children and young people and those who
have special educational needs
 Effective identification of need
 Effectiveness in meeting needs
 Local arrangements to achieve better
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identification and outcomes
The overall effectiveness of the area in meeting
its responsibilities
Inspection arrangements
The overall effectiveness of the area in meeting
its responsibilities
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