Inspection

But schools taking part in the first inspections under the new report-card system also report that the process feels more collaborative

Teacher and leader wellbeing is ‘built into every aspect’ of the new approach to inspection, says chief inspector Sir Martyn Oliver

Move welcomed by UK’s Department for Business and Trade as a positive step in the country’s international education expansion strategy

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 upper end of the salary scale has increased by over £45,000 – prompting a union to question the ‘significant’ amount being spent on ‘an outdated accountability model’

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

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

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

The government wants groups of schools to be inspected – but designing a robust, supportive and useful inspection system for them isn’t easy, says the Confederation of School Trusts’ Steve Rollett

The introduction of inspections for trusts should not discourage them from taking on struggling schools, argues the MAT sector body