After many months of hard work, we’re finally live! Our team of consultants work with Governors at over 1,400 schools and our aim is to share our experience and expertise with you through our new Better Governor website. If you are curious about us and want to know who we are and what we do, you can watch our short videos. Amanda Peck, an academy governor , and Steve Barker, our Head of Governance Consultancy, will introduce our vision for the Better Governor website and briefly talk through the resources that will be available to you. Why not let us know if there is a subject you would like to see featured and we’ll do our best to push it up our priority list.

Ofsted

The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) inspect schools and other educational settings. In this section of the Better Governor website, you will be able to find articles and resources which highlight, summarise and synthesise information and guidance relating to Ofsted and school inspections which is of relevance to all governing bodies.

Consultation on mental health provision for children and young people
The government green paper on child and adolescent mental health, Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health has been published for consultation and runs until 2nd March 2018

: January 2018
Ofsted Short Inspections from January 2018
Ofsted have published the outcome of their consultation on proposed changes to short (Section 8) inspections from January 2018.

Consultant: Steve Barker December 2017
Ofsted consultation on changes from January 2018
Ofsted have followed their announcement of changes to the current framework, which will operate between November and the end of the Autumn term, with a further consultation.

Consultant: Steve Barker October 2017
Ofsted Short Inspections
Ofsted have published details of planned changes to short (Section 8) inspections from October half term.

Consultant: Steve Barker October 2017
Analysing School Performance - the replacement for RAISEonline
RAISEonline is disappearing on 31st July 2017 and being replaced by a new service called Analysing School Performance. Read more here....

: June 2017
Updated guidance from Ofsted – timing of school inspections
Ofsted have updated and reissued a policy statement outlining how and when schools are selected for inspection. Read more here....

: June 2017

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Ofsted - Quality of Education judgement webinar

This Better Governor webinar will explore the Quality of Education judgement within the Ofsted framework introduced in September 2019. We will focus on how inspectors arrive at their judgement including, the evidence they look for in schools and reflect on how this impacts on governance in 2020.

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