Making sure educators develop young people's knowledge, skills and behaviour

As most of you will be aware, the government introduced a new Education Inspection Framework on 1 September last year.

This new framework is a refocusing of inspection and means inspectors will be spending less time looking at performance data, and more time considering how educators are making sure their learners are developing the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to allow them to successfully progress and achieve. The Government wants to see providers developing the knowledge, skills and behaviours that learners need to progress and achieve. This approach is especially welcomed where schooling for children and young people with special educational needs is concerned.

The DfE published its first set of schools management information since the start of the education inspection framework (EIF) in the September.

Sean Harford HMI, National Director for Education, talks about the first inspections under the EIF and the trends they are seeing so far in this report