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1125699

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in England that are due to close have been inspected by Ofsted in the last 12 months; how much did each such inspection cost; and what the outcomes were of each of those inspections.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	252627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2019 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/05/2019 15:23:41 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1125701

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much notice (a) schools and (b) local authorities are given for Ofsted school inspections.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	252629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2019 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/05/2019 15:26:33 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

997578

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to ensure that Ofsted school inspections include an assessment of pupil wellbeing and mental health; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	185583
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>Pupils’ personal development, behaviour and welfare, which includes aspects of mental health, is one of four core graded judgements made as part of Ofsted school inspections. The Department is engaging with Ofsted as it develops proposals for new inspection arrangements. Ofsted intends to consult on its proposals in January 2019.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/11/2018 09:10:41 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

964666

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to ensure that the revised 2019 Ofsted inspection framework includes a requirement to evaluate the teaching and monitoring of spoken language; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
	tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
	uin	169770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/09/2018 15:09:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

927750

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy of resources provided to local education authorities and Ofsted to monitor schools between Ofsted inspections and (b) the effectiveness of Ofsted boards of governors.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	155726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Schools that receive two or more successive overall Requires Improvement grades, and academies judged to require special measures which are not rebrokered to a new sponsor trust, normally receive a monitoring visit from Ofsted within 30 months following publication of the last Ofsted report. Ofsted also carries out risk assessments of schools which informs the timing of any inspection. This work is resourced from Ofsted’s overall financial settlement, agreed at Spending Review, and published in Ofsted’s Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p>The Department, through Regional School Commissioners, is responsible for oversight of academies; local authorities are responsible for oversight of maintained schools. For local authorities, the Department introduced a £50 million per year brokering and monitoring grant in November 2016, for two years. This grant has been allocated to local authorities since September 2017 to allow them to continue to monitor the performance of maintained schools, broker school improvement provision and intervene as appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted’s board reports directly to parliament, principally through Ofsted’s published annual performance report and Education Select Committee hearings. The effectiveness of the Chair is reviewed by the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education on behalf of the Secretary of State, taking account of a range of views. As set out in Ofsted’s Corporate Governance Framework, the Chair of the Ofsted Board is responsible for assessing the performance of individual board members.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 25/06/2018 16:01:48 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

837345

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of new (a) academy schools, (b) free schools, (c) studio schools, (d) UTCs and (e) local authority maintained schools have failed their first Ofsted inspection; and what the average length of time has been before a new school is first inspected in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	126464
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to you and a copy of her reply will be placed in the libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/02/2018 17:55:32 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

832896

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will ensure that during routine inspections Ofsted do not single out young Muslim female pupils wearing hijabs for (a) questioning and (b) the subject of any special inspections.
	tabling member constituency	Derby North
	tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
	uin	125212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/02/2018 17:07:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

833065

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including knife crime prevention as a factor in school Ofsted inspections.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
	uin	125381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>A school’s arrangements for protecting pupils are already a mandatory part of Ofsted inspection. Ofsted’s guidance document, “Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills”, states that safeguarding action by providers may be needed to protect children from a range of risks including issues that may be specific to a local area or population, for example gang activity and youth violence. The document is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/inspecting-safeguarding-in-early-years-education-and-skills-from-september-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/inspecting-safeguarding-in-early-years-education-and-skills-from-september-2015</a>.</p><p>Inspectors consider how well lead teachers have created a culture of vigilance and how well schools fulfil their statutory and other responsibilities in keeping children safe.</p><p>Ofsted is aware that there may be dimensions to this problem that it needs to understand better in order for inspectors to be able to inspect safeguarding more effectively and it is planning a new research project in the London region to investigate this in more depth.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/02/2018 17:09:56 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones

802556

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the way in which Ofsted inspections are conducted on the mental health and wellbeing of teachers.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	118106
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Both the Department and Ofsted view the wellbeing and mental health of teachers as a priority in relation to schools. The Department is committed to destigmatising mental health, encouraging openness and ensuring that access is available to support all staff who need support and assistance.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is tackling the drivers of unnecessary workload at national level, and is working with Ofsted to remove unnecessary workload connected with inspection and accountability, reducing data burdens on schools, and better assessing the impact of national policy changes on schools.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted’s 2017 to 2022 strategy published on 29 September highlights Ofsted’s focus on reducing inspection burdens, and also sets out Ofsted’s commitment to reduce regulatory burdens, streamline inspection processes and tackle the workload side effects of inspection. In addition to this, their new expanded myth-busting document should help schools to understand what is, and what is not, expected by inspectors.</p><p> </p><p>These measures align with the Government’s commitment to reduce the burden of inspection. The Department will continue to engage with Ofsted as it implements its strategy.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/12/2017 17:51:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

757065

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of the inspection system in schools on the (a) mental health and (b) retention rate of teachers.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
	tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
	uin	8446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>There has been no assessment of the effect of school inspection on mental health. The 2016 School Workforce Census shows teacher retention rates have remained stable for teachers over the first five years of their careers. The vast majority of teachers are not considering leaving teaching <a href="https://www.nfer.ac.uk/publications/LFSB01/LFSB01.pdf" target="_blank">(NFER Engaging Teachers 2016)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that workload remains a concern for schools and teachers. Removing unnecessary workload for teachers is a priority for the Government, to support the retention of high quality teachers and free up teachers to do what they do best: teach. We continue our extensive work with the profession, teaching unions and Ofsted to support the retention of teachers.</p><p>The Department’s reducing teacher workload action plan, published in February 2017, sets out a comprehensive programme of action to be taken. It makes clear their commitment to dispelling myths about preparing for inspection, providing training for inspectors and monitoring inspection reports. Ofsted has also re-committed to reducing unnecessary workload around inspections.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/09/2017 16:52:28 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy