Understanding the new Ofsted Framework (2025)

Learn more about the new Ofsted reforms as we answer some of your most common questions.

Learn more about the implications of the new Ofsted framework on mental health and wellbeing, as well as what teachers and leaders think of the changes.

Ofsted’s new framework comes into effect in November 2025. Learn more about what the changes mean for safeguarding, including how schools will be inspected on this new evaluation area.

Ofsted’s 2025 reforms bring a change in their report card system. In this article, we explore these changes and take a look at what the new Ofsted report card will look like.

Heard about the new Ofsted inspection reforms coming into effect this November? Learn more about the changes and how it might impact your school with Tes.

You’ve probably heard about Ofsted’s new 2025 reforms, but what do they mean for SEND and inclusion? Find out more about Ofsted and inclusion with Tes.

As Ofsted introduce their 2025 reforms, some are concerned that the new framework’s nuance leaves room for inaccuracy. In this blog, we’ll explore how schools can prepare for Ofsted inspections under the new framework.

Learn more about what the new Ofsted framework says about monitoring inspections, and why you should consider them an opportunity rather than a burden.

Sir Martyn Oliver hopes the watchdog’s new inspection framework will result in a ‘system-wide behaviour shift on inclusion’

Watchdog stops routine inspections of national professional qualifications for 2025-26, at education secretary Bridget Phillipson’s request

Schools that volunteered to be first for new inspections should be allowed to withdraw because of changes announced by Ofsted just days before the new system begins, say heads’ leaders

The schools watchdog has published findings from its pilot of new report card inspections, along with the changes it plans to make. Here is everything you need to know

The NAHT’s bid for a judicial review over the new Ofsted framework was heard just a week before inspections are due to start

The two unions will provide witness statements to support the NAHT’s bid for a judicial review over Ofsted’s new inspections

Ofsted’s expectation that schools provide a graded self-evaluation using its new five-point scale has sparked warnings from heads’ leaders

MAT leader Jonny Uttley warns Ofsted is ‘refusing’ to scrutinise schools that ‘push’ students out

The chief inspector, speaking at the Confederation of School Trusts conference, rejects the idea that Ofsted has not considered headteachers’ wellbeing in developing its new inspections

Watchdog’s national education director also tells the Schools North East summit that Ofsted is in talks with the DfE about concerns over the inspection of inclusion

After Tes readers got in touch with some key questions about Ofsted’s new approach to inspections, Cerys Turner provides the answers

Chief inspector Sir Martyn Oliver and Ofsted chair Dame Christine Gilbert face the education select committee as the finalised plans for new inspections come under scrutiny

The Association of School and College Leaders has confirmed it will explore legal action against Ofsted over the impact of report cards on school leader wellbeing

A head who had a two-day pilot inspection under Ofsted’s new framework shares what he learned – and why it was a positive experience

Inspectorate says the increase in inspections may reflect greater awareness of the problem of illegal schools, but warns legal loopholes still make it too easy to evade prosecution

With the new Ofsted framework taking a broad view of inclusion, it’s even more important to make teaching inclusive ‘by design’ and not by accident, suggests Alex Quigley

The inclusion of English as an additional language in the new inspection toolkit means schools need to look again at this area of provision, writes Katherine Solomon

Former Ofsted chief inspector tells the Conservative Party conference that there is a lack of subject scrutiny in the new report card system

More than seven in 10 school leaders are not satisfied with Ofsted’s new inspection system, a poll of ASCL members suggests

Inclusion focus risks ‘danger’ for schools directed to take on pupils whose needs they cannot meet, warns leader

School leaders’ union rallies its members to ask their employer to carry out a wellbeing risk assessment over Ofsted’s new school inspections

Inspectors praise overall coverage of SEND in ITT programmes but warn of patchy mentor knowledge and limited practical strategies in some providers

Watchdog pushes ahead with plan for a five-point grading scale but announces a series of changes to school inspections launching this term.

Heads’ union to ask its executive and council if members should be urged to withdraw from work as Ofsted inspectors.

NASBTT ‘pleased’ that watchdog considered many of its members’ recommendations for updated inspection framework.

Snap polls by NAHT and NEU show respondents strongly opposed to Ofsted’s report card inspections

Taskforce chair says it will be wrong to consider schools to be strong on inclusion if they are happy for local students ‘to be sent in a taxi elsewhere’.

With Ofsted opting not to publish full responses to a consultation on its new framework, a survey by former senior inspectors offers a snapshot of what the sector really thinks.

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