As always, your role regarding policies is to review them and ask questions to make sure they're effective. Your role isn't to write or implement policies yourself.
Your school's individual policies won't be graded
Ofsted doesn't:
- Make graded judgements about individual policies
- Issue set criteria for what your school should have in a policy or how it should present it
We were told this by Ofsted.
Usually, inspectors will only want to talk to people to assess their understanding of any procedures your school has set out in policies, rather than look at the policies directly.
Inspectors can still ask to see policies
They can do this for any policies that are relevant to the focus of your school's inspection.
However, to get yourself prepared, use our policy bank to make sure your school