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Consultation overview

We want to know what you think about our proposed plans for inspecting schools and other settings where children and adults learn. This includes:

• early years
• state-funded schools
• non-association independent schools
• further education聽and skills (FE and skills)
• initial teacher education (ITE)

In summary, we propose:

• Report cards聽鈥� 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鈥檚 work and short summaries of what inspectors found.

• Education inspection toolkits聽鈥� this tool shows providers and inspectors the evaluation areas that we鈥檒l focus inspections on and how we鈥檒l assess and grade providers (scroll down to see our toolkits).

• Inspection methodology聽鈥� changes to how we carry out inspection.

• Full inspections and monitoring inspections, state-funded schools聽鈥� 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聽鈥� a new approach to how we鈥檒l place a school into a category of concern.

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Supporting documents

Alongside the consultation document, we鈥檙e also publishing:

• separate proposed toolkits for early years, state-funded schools, non-association independent schools,聽FE聽and skills and聽ITE

• an equality impact assessment

• an implementation review of the current education inspection framework

• a list of references highlighting the statutory guidance, non-statutory guidance, professional standards and research papers used to inform the proposed toolkits and proposed inspection methodology