NDNA Conference

Better inspection for all

Nick Hudson,

National Director for Early Education, Ofsted

‘Poverty becomes a life sentence,

as cognitive development and educational achievement suffer. There is a direct relationship between household income, and school-readiness, and vocabulary at five’ (page iv)

‘Only a third of the poorest children in England go on to achieve five good GCSEs including English and maths’ (page iv-v)

Findings from Save the Children’s ‘A Fair Start for Every Child’ report 2014

Henry – 11 months

Overview of FOEI reforms

Further education and skills

Non-association

independent schools

New common inspection framework

Short inspections for good providers

2 year old offer Baseline exercise

Direct contracting and changes to workforce

Maintained schools and academies

Early Years

Benefits of the new Common Inspection Framework (CIF)

A Common Inspection Framework for schools, further education and skills (FES) providers, non-association independent schools and registered early years.Greater clarity, coherence and comparability for users, learners, parents and employers – Ofsted’s judgements will be made on the same basis, with the same terminology and mean the same thing.More emphasis and focus on the things that matter most.Consistent approach to safeguarding.Opportunity to refresh how we inspect.Greater opportunities for knowledge sharing and development between inspectors in different remits.

 A very large response. 4,400 through online consultation, 330 attendees at regional events, 115 parents and 180 pupils at focus groups.Responses to all questions were highly positive and proposals were supported by all groups.

– Approx. 80% support the common inspection framework.

Consultation response published on 2 February.

‘Better inspection for all’: Key points from the consultation

 

Common Inspection Framework (CIF)

New Common Inspection Framework

Four graded judgements across all remits: – effectiveness of leadership and management – quality of teaching, learning and assessment – personal development, behaviour and welfare – outcomes for children and learners.

Greater emphasis on safeguarding and curriculum.

The Common Inspection Framework ensures that a coherent set of judgments are made across the different education, skills and child care settings.

A single Common Inspection Framework supported by separate handbooks for each remit

The CIF handbooks will be consistent wherever possible, but recognise differences between sectors. Draft handbook used in the pilot inspections.After the pilots, we will revise the handbooks using feedback from inspectors.The CIF and all remit handbooks will be published in June, alongside a series of launch events.Early Education will also have a separate ‘registration handbook’ and ‘compliance handbook’.

Developing inspection handbooks

Change in emphasis in the Common Inspection Framework

Key points on the CIF:particular focus on the curriculum – to test rationale for it, policy practice and impactambitious vision – HMCI clear that through this we also capture the impact of the culture of a settingsafeguarding – not a graded judgement but inspectors must report under leadership whether it is effective or notemphasis on British values.

Effectiveness of leadership and management

 Key points:assessment – emphasis on securing evidence of all kinds of assessmentparents – strong focus on parents as sources of information and partners in children’s learning (fits well with EY principles)where relevant, English, mathematics and other skills necessary to function as an economically active member of British society and globally are promoted through teaching and learning – emphasis on the future but difficult to make this relevant for young children

Teaching, learning and assessment

 Key points:understanding of how to keep themselves safe from relevant risks such as exploitation and extremism, including when using the internet and social mediaself-awareness and understanding of how to be a successful learner choices about the next stage of their education, employment, self-employment or training, where relevant, from independent careers advice and guidance where relevant, employability skills so that they are well prepared for the next stage of their education, employment, self-employment or training.

Personal development, behaviour and welfare

 Critical focus here will be on the progress of different groups from their starting points

Outcomes for children

Changes include:

more descriptors in outstanding gradeno descriptors for requires improvement a greater focus on the quality of teaching and its impact on children’s progress and achievement

The evaluation schedule

CIF pilots

PROVIDER TYPE TOTAL PILOTS INSPECTION TEAM

Full day care 9 ECRI; EC HMI; ISPs

Childminders 16 ECRI; EC HMI; ISPs

Sessional day care – crèche;

playgroup; and out of school 13 ECRI; EC HMI; ISPs

Childcare on domestic premises 1 ECRI or EC HMI or ISPs

2YO in school 2 (s.5 pilot) School HMI

Registered childcare

in independent schools 2 II inspector

43 pilots in total

Spring ‘shadow’ pilots 2015

Starting to plan ahead now

Likely to obe in April/Mayo involve more ISP inspectorso include notice obe ‘live’ inspections, if possibleowill include re-inspection of inadequate

settings

Summer Pilots 2015

So what next…..

Timelines

CIF launched, handbooks published - June

Training for inspectors - July

Implementation - September 2015

Questions