Ofsted's consultation on changes to inspections from 2025: summary

Get to grips with Ofsted's proposed changes to the inspection process, so you can give informed and effective feedback to the inspectorate.

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Contents
  1. What's the latest?
  2. Report cards to replace the current judgement areas and grades
  3. Proposed changes to the inspection process
  4. Changes to schools 'causing concern'
  5. Changes to monitoring
  6. Inspection toolkits to contain the new standards for each evaluation area

What's the latest?

Ofsted has opened a consultation on changes to its inspection model. The deadline for responses is
28 April 2025 and outcomes will be published in the summer. Ofsted intends for these changes to come into effect in November 2025, and will pause inspections in the autumn term until then, according to this Tes article.

Read the proposed changes below and respond to the consultation on Ofsted's website.

Report cards to replace the current judgement areas and grades

Following an inspection, schools would receive a grade on a 5-point scale for different evaluation areas. Each evaluation area would also have a short summary of the inspectors' findings.

New evaluation areas

All schools, including independent schools

There would be no overall effectiveness grade, as is the