Under the revised inspection regime, residential schools will be given two days' notice of any joint education and child welfare inspections, but no advance warning of visits solely to monitor child welfare. Previously schools were given five days' notice of inspections examining boarders’ welfare.
The new-style inspections, which are based on revised national minimum standards for boarding provision, are designed to capture an accurate picture of the care and education each school provides.
For the first time, Ofsted will publish the detailed criteria inspectors use to make their judgments on residential schools, in a bid to provide greater transparency for schools and parents.
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