Date: 30/05/2017
Blog posted by Sean Harford, on 18 January 2017 in the Gov.UK blog under "Ofsted - developments in education".
Periodically at Ofsted I become aware of misconceptions about inspection processes; what we look at and what people think is required by us. Currently there seems to be some confused chatter about our role in safeguarding. Ofsted has been inspecting safeguarding arrangements in schools since 2005 and from September 2015 we have been taking a consistent approach to inspecting safeguarding across all education provision.
Ofsted does not set the standards that schools and other education providers have to meet on safeguarding. Our job is to inspect against standards and statutory guidance set by the Department for Education (DfE). And it is the DfE’s statutory guidance that schools need to refer to. If a school’s safeguarding arrangements do not meet these requirements then at inspection we will judge them to be ineffective. This will lead to an overall inadequate judgement for the school.
Inspectors look at a wide range of evidence to inform their judgements about the effectiveness of safeguarding in schools. The main things our inspectors look at are: ....
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