handbook: - A privacy notice has been added. - In the annex, p74, the section on the 'Inspection of religious education and collective worship' has been updated. In the 'Clarification for schools/Ofsted inspection myths' document: - New information has been added in the 'Evidence for inspection section' about attainment, p2. - Ofsted News. Ofsted School Inspection Update: March 2018 - Issue 13. Ofsted recently released their latest 'School inspection update' to its inspectors. It looks at a number of issues, including the inspection of 'exempt' schools, the inspection of schools with a religious character, and what inspectors should look for in relation to careers provision in schools. Ofsted is also the colloquial name used in the Education sector to refer to an Ofsted Inspection, or an Ofsted Inspection Report. An Ofsted Section 5 Inspection is called a Full Report and administered under Section 5 of the 2005 Education Act , while a monitoring visit is conducted under the authority given by Section 8 of the 2005 Education Act and can also be called an Ofsted Section 8 School inspection handbook January 2018 No. 150066 8 place in time for the start of the third school year after the most recent inspection.10 11. In conducting a risk assessment, Ofsted analyses: pupils' academic achievement over time, taking account of both attainment and progress pupils' attendance section 5), HMCI has power to inspect it at any time under section 8(2) of the Act. Under section 8(1), the Secretary of State may require HMCI to carry out an inspection of an exempt school (or any other school covered by section 5). Under section 9(3) of the Act, the Secretary of State may also require HMCI to treat the section 8 inspection He explains this in his message to inspectors in the July 2018 school inspection update, and says that this is in view of Ofsted's revised framework for 2019 (page 2). The inspection update also sets out guidance on what inspectors should be looking at regarding the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) in schools (pages 5-7). Initial teacher education inspection handbook February 2018, No. 150033 3 Introduction 1. This handbook sets out the statutory basis and framework for initial teacher education (ITE) inspections in England from April 2018. It also sets out the main activities that inspectors will carry out when inspecting ITE, and the Ofsted confirmed to Under 5 that these changes will also apply to early years settings, with a new individual inspection handbook for each sector. 2019 consultation The changes are due to come into place in September 2019, but a consultation on each of the sector handbooks, including for early years settings, will be held in January year. The Ofsted early years inspection handbook was updated on 28th June 2021. It is updated quite regularly. However, if you want to print it there are instructions at the bottom of the contents section on the left of the document - 'print or save to PDF'. It is 40 pages long. You will find the revised handbook listed here -. A section 8 inspection of a 'good' school will focus on aspects of the school's provision, as a subset of the full framework criteria. (a) For every inspection, the plan is for Ofsted to call the school/academy no later than 10.00 a.m. on the day before the (full-blown) inspection is scheduled to start, to notify the headteacher and governors formally about it. Our section