The school must take all reasonable steps to make sure that parents of pupils at the school receive a copy of the report. What happens if Ofsted judges a school to be inadequate? If inspectors judge a school to be inadequate, it will be placed in one of the following two categories of concern. Special measures This means the school is failing to provide its pupils – with an acceptable standard of education, and is not showing the capacity to make the improvements needed. Serious weaknesses This means that one or more of the key areas of – the school’s performance require significant improvement, but leaders and managers have demonstrated the capacity to improve. A maintained school judged as inadequate and placed in a category of concern will be issued with an academy order by the Secretary of State for Education, to require it to become a new sponsored academy. Inspectors will not normally monitor the school unless there are concerns or there is a delay in the school becoming a sponsored academy. For an academy that has been judged as inadequate and placed in a category of concern, inspectors will visit the academy to check on its progress until it can be removed from the category (unless it is re-brokered with a new sponsor to become a new sponsored academy). Ofsted will re-inspect an academy that has been judged as having serious weaknesses or requiring special measures within 30 months of its last standard two-day inspection. Short inspections A school judged to be good at its last inspection normally receives a one-day short inspection approximately every four years. However, some good schools will automatically receive a full two-day inspection if our risk assessment process indicates that the quality of provision in the school may have deteriorated significantly. The purpose of a short inspection is to determine whether the school continues to provide a good or better standard of education and whether safeguarding is effective. If there is sufficient evidence of strong practice and improved performance of a good school, and it is reasonable to believe that the school may be judged outstanding if it received a full two-day inspection, the school will receive a report, in the form of a letter, setting out its strengths and areas of marked improvement and informing the school that its next inspection will be a full two-day inspection, to take place within one to two years.
The school must take all reasonable steps to make sure that parents of pupils at the school receive a copy of the report. What happens if Ofsted judges a school to be inadequate? If inspectors judge a school to be inadequate, it will be placed in one of the following two categories of concern. Special measures – This means the school is failing to provide its pupils with an acceptable standard of education, and is not showing the capacity to make the improvements needed. Serious weaknesses – This means that one or more of the key areas of the school’s performance require significant improvement, but leaders and managers have demonstrated the capacity to improve. A maintained school judged as inadequate and placed in a category of concern will be issued with an academy order by the Secretary of State for Education, to require it to become a new sponsored academy. Inspectors will not normally monitor the school unless there are concerns or there is a delay in the school becoming a sponsored academy. For an academy that has been judged as inadequate and placed in a category of concern, inspectors will visit the academy to check on its progress until it can be removed from the category (unless it is re-brokered with a new sponsor to become a new sponsored academy). Ofsted will re-inspect an academy that has been judged as having serious weaknesses or requiring special measures within 30 months of its last standard two-day inspection. Short inspections A school judged to be good at its last inspection normally receives a one-day short inspection approximately every four years. However, some good schools will automatically receive a full two-day inspection if our risk assessment process indicates that the quality of provision in the school may have deteriorated significantly. The purpose of a short inspection is to determine whether the school continues to provide a good or better standard of education and whether safeguarding is effective. If there is sufficient evidence of strong practice and improved performance of a good school, and it is reasonable to believe that the school may be judged outstanding if it received a full two-day inspection, the school will receive a report, in the form of a letter, setting out its strengths and areas of marked improvement and informing the school that its next inspection will be a full two-day inspection, to take place within one to two years.
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