Proposals

Ofsted welcomes your views on its proposals for changes to the education inspection framework. Your feedback will help Ofsted refine and improve its proposed approach before finalising and publishing the framework in summer 2019.

They propose to make changes to the education inspection framework, which will apply to all education inspections. There are also specific proposals relating to early years, maintained schools and academies, non-association independent schools, and further education and skills providers.

Supporting documentationThe consultation document, and other supporting material, is available from the Ofsted website, please refer to it when completing the survey.

Closing date

The closing date for this consultation is 5 April 2019.

Privacy Statement

This survey is being administered by Ofsted using a survey system provided by a third party, SmartSurvey. Any personal information you submit as part of this survey will be stored and processed for a short period of time by SmartSurvey. Ofsted will regularly collect submitted information. While it is held by SmartSurvey it will be protected in line with its Privacy Policy www.smartsurvey.co.uk/privacy-policy.

By continuing with this survey, you consent to the transfer of your information from SmartSurvey to Ofsted. Ofsted’s personal information charter is available at www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted/about/personal-information-charter.

The information you provide in this survey will only be used for the purposes of consultation and research to help us to become more effective, influence policies and inform inspection and regulatory practice.

Towards the end of the survey you will be given the option to provide us with some additional information about yourself. This is to help us evaluate how successfully we are gathering views from all sections of society and to help us improve our consultations in the future. Any information you give will be processed separately from your consultation response.