A great opportunity missed
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Ofsted's new inspection framework is "incredibly disappointing yet sadly totally expected," write the two former senior Her Majesty's Inspectors Colin Richards and Frank Norris.
After two large-scale consultations, thousands of individual responses, expenditure of around two million pounds and long delays, Ofsted has finally published its latest inspection framework for schools and colleges. To coin a phrase, after so great a period of gestation the “Ofsted elephant” has laboured to give birth to a “paltry mouse”!
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By Colin Richards and Frank Norris for EDUCATION UNCOVERED
Published: 9 September 2025
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