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Self-evaluation - a story to fear or celebrate?

2 mins read Management
Ofsted's new children's services inspection arrangements place far greater emphasis than the previous regime on leaders' self assessing what we do and why.

So what is the most successful way to prepare and present a self-evaluation - one that supports our local inspection and acts as the much-needed lubricant to the Ofsted machine?

I have spent time reflecting on the words I heard recently from an Ofsted official, that such an evaluation "should not be hard to write", because there should be nothing in it that I don't already know or use in my daily oversight of children's social care. The Ofsted official went on to explain that "all we want to know is what impact you are having, how you know and what you are doing to improve?"

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