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Maintained schools inspection documents archive
28 Jan 2013
Since its inception in 1992 Ofsted has inspected schools under Section 9 of the Education (Schools) Act 1992; Section 10 of the School Inspections Act 1996; and Section 5 of the Education Act 2005.
During this time there were changes to the inspection framework for schools and other related documents: an overview of the changes can be found in the Maintained schools inspection frameworks overview documents below. The documents produced for each framework support earlier Ofsted inspections and reports, some of which are still accessible on our website.
We provide inspectors with updated inspection guidance on a termly basis and current guidance is available on the Main inspection documents for inspectors page.
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