Main findings: Responses to post-inspection surveys: inspections and visits between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023
Published 18 July 2023
Applies to England
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We’re pleased to be publishing more detail of our data of post-inspection survey responses.
Public interest and the responses to our review of statistical publications last year told us that there was interest in Ofsted publishing this data routinely. We are now planning to publish this data annually with summaries relating to the previous financial year.
We are also showing the data for state-funded schools weighted in line with the judgement outcomes of providers inspected in the year, given interest in the impact of potential response bias. These methods are explained in the data release but are experimental in their nature. We welcome comments.
This release relates to post-inspection surveys of early years providers, further education and skills providers, independent schools, social care providers and state funded schools.
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Overall, post-inspection survey respondents remain positive about their inspection.
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Across early years, education and skills, schools, and social care, more than 9 in 10 providers agreed that their inspection will help them to improve their provision further. This is in line with last year’s figures.
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In general, views from providers who received inadequate or requires improvement judgements are less positive than those receiving good or outstanding outcomes. For example, around three quarters of requires improvement state-funded schools and just over 2 in 5 inadequate state-funded schools said that their inspection will help them improve further.
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On average, 85% of respondents agreed that the benefits of their inspection outweigh any negative aspects.
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Response to the survey is generally good. Typically, around half of social care providers and state-funded schools respond. A slightly smaller proportion of independent schools and further education and skills providers respond. In contrast, one in 20 early years providers respond.
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When weighted, the proportion of state-funded schools agreeing or strongly agreeing with any of the statements in the survey varies by no more than 3 percentage points when compared with the unweighted data. For example, the unweighted data shows that 92% of schools strongly agree or agree that their inspection will help them to improve their provision further, whereas the corresponding weighted figure is 91%. Full information is contained in the tables.