The inspection framework

Understand how Ofsted will inspect achievement in your school/trust and the key evidence it will consider under the 2025 inspection framework.

Be clear on how attendance and behaviour will be inspected in your school under the 2025 Ofsted inspection framework.

Be clear on how your school's curriculum and teaching will be inspected under the 2025 framework.

Find out how Ofsted will inspect your school's Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), and what inspectors will be looking for under the 2025 inspection framework.

Understand how Ofsted will inspect the new evaluation area of inclusion in your school. Find out about the criteria from the 2025 framework.

Understand how Ofsted will inspect leadership and governance in your school/trust and the key evidence inspectors will consider under the 2025 inspection framework.

Understand how Ofsted will inspect personal development and wellbeing in your school under the 2025 framework, and the key evidence it will consider.

Understand how Ofsted will inspect your school's post-16 provision, and the evidence inspectors will consider under the 2025 inspection framework.

Get to grips with how Ofsted will inspect safeguarding in your school under the 2025 inspection framework.

Understand how Ofsted will inspect your school's SEND provision as part of the 'inclusion' evaluation area, so you can feel confident when your school gets the call. Learn more about your meeting with inspectors and what to expect.

Relationships and sex education (RSE) won't be inspected on its own – instead, Ofsted will look at how your school is meeting statutory requirements for RSE, and consider this within the ‘personal development and wellbeing’ and ‘curriculum and teaching’ evaluation areas.

Get your head around the key changes to school inspections for state-funded schools for 2025, including new report cards and the inspection toolkit.

Understand how Ofsted will inspect your school's use of the pupil premium. Doing so won't just prepare you for inspection, but will also inform your strategic plans, as well as how you monitor and challenge the effectiveness of your pupil premium spending.

Ofsted inspectors won't formally assess your role as a link governor or trustee. If you do speak to them, here's how you can demonstrate that you're effectively monitoring your school or trust.

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Summary evaluations are Ofsted's approach to gathering findings about a multi-academy trust. Find out what happens at each stage of the process, what Ofsted will expect and what it's likely to consider.

Ofsted inspectors won't grade your school's policies, but they'll want to know how it's implementing them. Find out what inspectors would want to see from your school.

If your school has a designated religious character, you're responsible for organising section 48 inspections on top of standard Ofsted inspections. Be clear on what these inspections are and how they work, so you can be confident in fulfilling this duty.

Find out when your school will be eligible for monitoring inspections, how often they'll happen and the process for moving out of a 'category of concern'. Plus, see a step-by-step guide for every type of monitoring inspection in the 2025 framework.