She revealed the inspectorate had surveyed all of its staff during the first week of the lockdown to work out if they had additional skills to help elsewhere, and these details were passed to other government departments. Ofsted have confirmed in the latest guidance for early years settings that routine inspections for registered early years provision in England will restart from January 2021. Click here to view our Cookie Policy. Some will be going well over the 12 month limit between the initial monitoring visit and a full inspection sadly.

After all, schools will only just be familiarising themselves with all the new social-distancing measures, without having to accommodate the additional difficulty of protecting, and being protected from, a group of people whose practice is to move between schools.

Published: 01:03 BST, 6 July 2020 | Updated: 07:39 BST, 6 July 2020.

Our visits will help parents understand how schools and colleges are getting children and students back up to speed after so long at home.'. Schools closed to most pupils just days later. (Just off to call my local plumber to come to my house and wander around for a bit, looking at my pipework, making sage nods of the head and then departing. The findings in English schools will be discussed with the Government and normal Ofsted school inspections will resume in January 2021.

3. Schools closed to most pupils just days later.

Ofsted said it will also not ask providers for documents or records in a certain format as “we will use what they have”; not require staff to prepare any lesson plans or examples of assessment, or to put up any displays for the visit; and not involve a general review of policies and procedures.

When will normal Ofsted inspections resume? She said that “of course we’ll want to look” at the policy in the aftermath of coronavirus, and at when it will be “sensible and proportionate” to consider delays.

‘Ofsted will be part of the rebuilding effort from September. The three themes for visits to grade 3 and 4 providers, along with a sample of grade 1 and 2 providers, will be: 1. By this time, it is expected that the EYFS will be reinstated fully. How you have ‘assured the quality’ of your curriculum [observation, learner feedback, etc.] 7423341, paused all routine inspection activity in mid-March. Visits will also be made to regulated nurseries and childminders, with children’s social care providers and children’s homes also set to be inspected in the autumn. 'We are not convinced that talking about a longer term plan to bring back full inspections in January is wise at this stage. 1pm - 4pm, Break Up Song As revealed by Schools Week, Ofsted paused all routine inspection activity in mid-March, following a decision by the government to ramp up measures to tackle coronavirus.

Spielman said it was “impossible” for her to say how long schools will get before they are inspected once inspections resume. During today’s committee meeting, Spielman said it was too early for her to say how any return to routine inspections might work, but insisted inspections would play a more important role once they resume.

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