Ofsted Guidance School Inspection handbook
Updated September 2024
1. This
guidance describes the main activities carried out during graded, ungraded and
urgent inspections of maintained schools and academies in England under sections
5 & 8 of the Education Act 2005, respectively. It sets out the grade
descriptors that inspectors use to make their judgements and on which they
report. It applies to school inspections under the education inspection framework (EIF).
2.This handbook has 4 parts:
Part 1. How schools will be
inspected
Part 2. Explanation of Ofsted's
judgements
Part 3. Graded descriptors for
graded inspections
Part 4. Urgent inspections
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