Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on reducing the burden of Ofsted inspections.
Keeping burdens to a minimum has been, and continues to be, an important aim of the Government’s inspection policy.
In 2015, Ofsted introduced a more proportionate inspection model through short inspections for good schools and colleges. In recent years, Ofsted has also sought to dispel myths about what inspectors do or do not expect in areas such as marking, lesson planning and the presentation of pupil performance information.
The Government is committed to building on this work to bear down on the burden of inspection, and is working with Ofsted to consider next steps.