This consultation closes at 11:59pm on 28 April 2025
You can find the consultation materials here Improving the way Ofsted inspects education - GOV.UK
Ofsted's summary of what they are proposing:
Report cards – these would give parents and carers more detailed information than the current reports, including a new 5-point grading scale to evaluate more areas of a provider’s work and short summaries of what inspectors found.
Education inspection toolkits – this tool shows providers and inspectors the evaluation areas that we’ll focus inspections on and how we’ll assess and grade providers (scroll down to see our toolkits).
Inspection methodology – changes to how we carry out inspection.
Full inspections and monitoring inspections, state-funded schools – we plan to end ungraded inspections of state-funded schools and change our monitoring programmes so that we can check that timely action is taken to raise standards.
Identifying state-funded schools causing concern – a new approach to how we’ll place a school into a category of concern.
There is a video specifically for professionals here:
Safeguarding evaluation area is graded as either met or not met. This is because we expect providers to be both compliant with statutory requirements and instil an open and positive culture around safeguarding. Therefore, providers are either doing everything they can to keep children and learners safe, or they are not.
Each toolkit (below) will have specific descriptors for the following standardised areas:
• Culture
• Safeguarding information for all staff to know and act on
• Management of safeguarding
• Safer recruitment
• Safeguarding concerns or allegations
• Child-on-child sexual violence and sexual harassment
We have a modules in this years Refresher DSL Course exploring this with peers across the sectors how this might look and sharing good practice. For more information please do contact your education safeguarding advisor or the team safeguardingineducationteam@bristol.gov.uk