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Are you a parent or carer?

We want to hear what you think about our plans for clearer, easier-to-read report cards. Watch this video to see an example.

Consultation overview

We want to know what you think about our proposed plans for inspecting schools and other settings where children and adults learn. This includes:

• early years
• state-funded schools
• non-association independent schools
• further education聽and skills (FE and skills)
• initial teacher education (ITE)

In summary, we propose:

• Report cards聽鈥� these would give parents and carers more detailed information than the current reports, including a new 5-point grading scale to evaluate more areas of a provider鈥檚 work and short summaries of what inspectors found.

• Education inspection toolkits聽鈥� this tool shows providers and inspectors the evaluation areas that we鈥檒l focus inspections on and how we鈥檒l assess and grade providers (scroll down to see our toolkits).

• Inspection methodology聽鈥� changes to how we carry out inspection.

• Full inspections and monitoring inspections, state-funded schools聽鈥� we plan to end ungraded inspections of state-funded schools and change our monitoring programmes so that we can check that timely action is taken to raise standards.

• Identifying state-funded schools causing concern聽鈥� a new approach to how we鈥檒l place a school into a category of concern.

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Supporting documents

Alongside the consultation document, we鈥檙e also publishing:

• separate proposed toolkits for early years, state-funded schools, non-association independent schools,聽FE聽and skills and聽ITE

• an equality impact assessment

• an implementation review of the current education inspection framework

• a list of references highlighting the statutory guidance, non-statutory guidance, professional standards and research papers used to inform the proposed toolkits and proposed inspection methodology