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Ross McGill made this Freedom of Information request to Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills,
For a number of years, Ofsted has used statistical models to ensure proportionate
inspection. Your new methodology has not changed and you believe will improve your capacity to identify concerns about performance.
In your documentation, published March 2018, you share methodology notes which set out the risk assessment process that Ofsted uses for primary and secondary maintained schools and academies that are judged to be good and outstanding.
Your document I refer to is here:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...
In light of your proposed education inspection framework for September 2019, published on 16th January 2019, please could you share the current (at the time of this FOI request) the risk assessment process for the two stages:
1) the assessment of each school based on analysis of published data.
2) the in-depth ‘desk-based’ review of a wider range of available information.
For schools and academies, I would like to know 1) what school data (published or not) do you consider for assessment? 2) What 'desk-based' information do you assess to evaluate which schools to visit?
Yours faithfully,
Ross McGill
Dear Mr McGill,
Thank you for your email.
On reading your request, it has become apparent that it can be interpreted in a number of different ways. So that we can take it forward as you intended, please can you clarify what information you are seeking?
Yours sincerely,
Elizabeth Banks
Information Rights and Access Manager
Ofsted
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Dear InformationRequest,
What sources of data do you use to calculate/predict which schools to inspect next?
Yours sincerely,
Ross McGill
Dear Mr McGill
Your request for information
Thank you for your email of 22 January 2019 in which you requested the
following information:
§ “What sources of data do you use to calculate/predict which schools to
inspect next?”
We will consider your request under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act
2000 and any other legislation that may apply.
Should there be any problems or difficulties in processing your request,
we will be in touch with you again shortly. Otherwise, we will respond to
your request within 20 working days from the date we received it, as
required by the Act.
This should be by 15 February 2019; however, if we can respond sooner we
will do so.
If you have any queries or concerns about the content of this letter,
please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely
Julie Hadler
Information Access Co-ordinator
Information Rights and Access Team
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Dear Mr McGill
Please find attached our response to your request for information.
Yours sincerely,
Alastair O’Neill
Information Access Officer
Information Rights and Access Team
Ofsted | 2 Rivergate | Temple Quay | Bristol | BS1 6EH
Direct Tel: 0300 013 1287
Ofsted National Business Unit: 0300 123 1231
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