Academies: Inspections
(asked on 2nd November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to grant Ofsted powers to inspect multi academy trusts.
This question was answered on 10th November 2017
There are no plans to grant Ofsted powers to inspect multi academy trusts (MAT) at this time.
Ofsted currently scrutinises MAT performance through focused inspections of schools within the same MAT.
The Department is working with Ofsted to develop new approaches to better scrutinise MATs, and the legal framework already has sufficient provisions to take this forward. We will publish details in due course.