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Annual Report

This is Sir Michael Wilshaw’s first Annual Report as Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills. It is underpinned by the findings of nearly 25,000 inspections carried out during 2011/12 – of schools, early years and childcare, services for children and families, adult learning and skills, and colleges.

This year’s Annual Report is supported by three reports that give more detail on the early years, schools and learning and skills sectors. Because the legal inspection year for most social care provision runs from April – March, the report on social care services will be published in the summer of 2013 to allow us to report on a full year’s inspection following radical changes to several social care frameworks.

Some of the key conclusions from this year’s Annual Report are:

• Schools in England are getting better – although there is still a long way to go before the nation catches up with the best in the world.
• There are wide variations in the performance of schools across different local authority areas, leading to serious inequities for children in some parts of the country.
• Ofsted has identified major concerns with the quality of provision in the post-16 Learning and Skills sector, especially in colleges, which are not adequately preparing young people for the world of work.

Annual Report 2011/12

	The Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills
	Early years report
	Schools report
	Learning and skills report

Alongside the Annual Report, Ofsted has today launched a new service called Data View, a digital tool which allows open access to, and the comparison of, inspection findings about the performance of providers at national, regional, local authority and constituency level over time.

On the day the Annual Report is published, we also publish a full list of those providers whose work with children, young people and adult learners has been found by inspectors to be of outstanding quality during the inspection year. For the current list of Outstanding Providers go to the Outstanding Providers page.