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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 educationand skills (FE and skills)
• initial teacher education (ITE)

In summary, we propose:

• Report cards 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 providers work and short summaries of what inspectors found.

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

• Inspection methodology changes to how we carry out inspection.

• Full inspections and monitoring inspections, state-funded schools 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 a new approach to how well place a school into a category of concern.

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Supporting documents

Alongside the consultation document, were also publishing:

• separate proposed toolkits for early years, state-funded schools, non-association independent schools,FEand skills andITE

• 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