Guidance

Withdrawn: Non-association independent school inspection handbook

Guidance for inspecting non-association independent schools under the common inspection framework.

• From: Ofsted
• Published: 15 June 2015
• Last updated: 3 August 2018 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 2 September 2019

View the current education inspection framework and handbooks.

Applies to England

Documents

Non-association independent school inspection handbook

PDF, 1020 KB, 93 pages

Details

This relates to the common inspection framework, which we used until September 2019. We now inspect under the education inspection framework. Anything relating to the old framework will remain online until October 2019 for reference purposes only.

This handbook described how Ofsted inspectors carried out inspections of non-association independent schools under the common inspection framework: education, skills and early years’. It sets out the evaluation criteria that inspectors used to make their judgements and on which they report.

Published 15 June 2015
Last updated 3 August 2018 + show all updates

1. 3 August 2018

   Added privacy notice information; updates to ‘Clarification for schools’ section, on evidence for inspection, performance management, safeguarding and the curriculum and added clarification from the Department for Education on which checks should be made on non-proprietorial governors, and on prohibition orders and prohibition from management of independent schools orders.

2. 13 January 2017

   Updated for layout change: the 'Clarification for schools’ section has moved and is now paragraph 23.

3. 8 September 2016

   Updated for use from September 2016.

4. 22 February 2016

   Information about inspecting against the independent school standards and other requirements added in Annex B.

5. 28 August 2015

   Final document for use from September 2015 published.

6. 15 June 2015

   First published.