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10 January 2024
Watch for free part 3 of Ofsted's series of short webinars about the early years curriculum with a focus on communication and language. In this video, Phil Minns (Senior HMI,…
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On Friday 15th December, the Department of Education published the new Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 guidance. As you will be aware, this is the overarching document in relation to safeguarding,…
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The DfE has updated ‘Ensuring a good education for children who cannot attend school because of health needs’ to reflect changes to related policies, including behaviour in schools, and school…
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The DfE released a consultation on 19th December on the draft guidance they have produced for schools and colleges about gender questioning children. The consultation is seeking views on the…
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Ofsted released the latest Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR) in December. This release contains the following: - absence data for 2022/23 (autumn and spring terms)- final key stage 1 data-…
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Inspections of schools will begin from 22nd January, following mental health awareness training for all lead inspectors. Sir Martyn has also announced that Ofsted will respond in full to the…
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The Department for Education (DfE) has published the primary performance tables. The 2023 tables show: results from the key stage 2 test in: reading grammar punctuation and spelling mathematics key…
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The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel announced on the 7th December 2023 a national review into child sexual abuse within the family environment.The aim of the review is to explore…
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There has been one change to the headline data for KS2 in 2023 as the revised data has now been published. The combined reading, writing, mathematics score for 2023 is…
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Ofsted, under the tenure of the new His Majesty's Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver, will halt inspections for a few weeks in January 2024. Only emergency safeguarding visits will take…
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New data shows recorded offences of adults neglecting, mistreating, or assaulting children have doubled over the last 5 years. Reported cases of children in England being subjected to cruelty or…
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This revision to the guidance focuses on strengthening multi-agency working across the whole system of help, support and protection for children and their families, keeping a child-centred approach while bringing…
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