Press releases

Ofsted: Too many of England's poorest children continue to be let down by the education system

20 Jun 2013

The Chief Inspector of Ofsted today put forward a series of radical and far-reaching recommendations to make a lasting difference to the prospects of thousands of ‘unseen children’ from low income backgrounds who are being let down by the education system.

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Ofsted consults on a single inspection framework for local authority children's social care services

14 Jun 2013

Ofsted has today launched a consultation on the way it inspects services for vulnerable children.

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Ofsted: too many of our brightest children are being let down in the state system

13 Jun 2013

Too many of the most able children and young people are underperforming in our non-selective state secondary schools, a new report by Ofsted reveals today.

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Norfolk and Isle of Wight are the first local authorities to undergo the new school improvement inspections

07 Jun 2013

For the first time, teams of Ofsted inspectors will on Monday (10 June) begin inspecting local authority arrangements for supporting school improvement in two parts of the country – Norfolk and the Isle of Wight – to find out why these authorities have such a disproportionate number of under-performing schools.