A consultation on proposals for the revised inspection framework, published today (3 April), adds that this will be a minimum requirement and to qualify as "good" or "outstanding", standards in centres will have to be set much higher.
The joint framework has been developed following the independent review of restraint in juvenile secure settings by Peter Smallridge and Andrew Williamson in 2008, which recommended that Ofsted and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons should consider establishing a joint unit that specialises in the inspection of restraint regimes and practices.
Under the planned revised framework, inspection teams will be led by one inspector of social care from Ofsted, and will include other Ofsted inspectors with expertise in social care and education, plus inspectors from the prisons inspectorate and the Care Quality Commission.
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