This comprehensive eBook provides a clear, practical and authoritative guide to the Ofsted Inspection Framework 2025, written to support school leaders, teachers and governors and wider staff at every stage of inspection readiness. It breaks down the revised framework, evaluation areas and grading scale in a way that is easy to understand and directly applicable to day-to-day practice, with a strong and consistent focus on inclusion, safeguarding and adaptive teaching.
Designed for real school contexts, the eBook shows how inspectors gather and triangulate evidence, how data and context are interpreted and how schools are expected to articulate a clear narrative of strengths, priorities and impact. It offers step-by-step guidance on preparation, from inspection timelines and planning calls to learning walks, case sampling and report cards, helping schools feel confident rather than reactive. Throughout, there is a clear emphasis on disadvantaged pupils, pupils with SEND and those facing barriers to learning or well-being, ensuring that inclusive practice is not an add-on but a core expectation.
Packed with practical prompts, checklists and reflective questions, this eBook is ideal for individual leaders, senior leadership teams and whole-staff professional development. It supports schools to focus on doing the right things for children and young people, while being fully prepared to evidence this clearly and coherently during inspection. Suitable for maintained schools, academies, special schools, independent schools and alternative provision, it is a valuable reference to return to before, during and after inspection, supporting sustained improvement rather than short-term compliance.
340 Pages.