- Health and safety: how to show Ofsted you're fulfilling your duties
Ofsted doesn't have set criteria for evaluating health and safety, but inspectors expect you to meet your statutory requirements. Be clear on what inspectors are looking for, and how to demonstrate good, compliant practice.
- How Ofsted inspects achievement
Understand how Ofsted will inspect achievement and the key evidence it will consider under the 2025 inspection framework. Download and use our self-evaluation tool to help you review your setting.
- How Ofsted inspects artificial intelligence (AI)
Get to grips with what Ofsted may look at when it comes to AI policies and usage, and how you can make sure you’re staying compliant.
- How Ofsted inspects attendance and behaviour
Learn how Ofsted inspects attendance and behaviour under the 2025 framework. Use our self-evaluation tool to review your behaviour, attendance, exclusion and attitudes to learning against the standards.
- How Ofsted inspects curriculum and teaching
Understand how Ofsted will inspect curriculum and teaching under the 2025 framework, and the key evidence inspectors will consider. Use our self-evaluation tool to review your current provision.
- How Ofsted inspects early years in schools
Find out how Ofsted will inspect your school's Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), and what inspectors will be looking for under the 2025 inspection framework. Use our self-evaluation tool to review your provision.
- How Ofsted inspects inclusion
Understand how Ofsted will inspect the new evaluation area of inclusion in your school. Find out about the standards of the 2025 framework, and use our self-evaluation tool to consider your provision.
- How Ofsted inspects leadership and governance
Understand how Ofsted will inspect leadership and governance in your school, and the key evidence inspectors will consider. Use our self-evaluation tool to review your current provision.
- How Ofsted inspects personal development and wellbeing
Understand how Ofsted will inspect personal development and wellbeing in your school under the 2025 framework, and the key evidence it will consider. Use our self-evaluation tool to review your current provision.
- How Ofsted inspects post-16 provision
Understand how Ofsted will inspect your school's post-16 provision, and the evidence inspectors will consider under the 2025 framework. Use our self-evaluation tool to review your current provision.
- How Ofsted inspects safeguarding
Get to grips with how Ofsted will inspect safeguarding in your school under the 2025 inspection framework. Find details of the key evidence it will consider, and use our self-evaluation tool to review your setting.
- How Ofsted will assess RSE
Relationships and sex education (RSE) won't be inspected on its own – instead, Ofsted will look at how you're meeting statutory requirements for RSE, and consider this within the ‘personal development and wellbeing’ and ‘curriculum and teaching’ evaluation areas.
- Ofsted inspection framework 2025: summary of changes
Get your head around the key changes to school inspections for state-funded schools for 2025, including new report cards, the inspection toolkit, and changes to the notification phone call.
- Ofsted 'summary evaluations' of trusts: explainer
Summary evaluations are Ofsted's approach to gathering its findings about a trust. Find out what happens at each stage of the process, what Ofsted will expect of you and your leadership team, and what inspectors are likely to consider.
- School policies: what Ofsted is looking for
Inspectors may look at school policies and how they're implemented, when they're gathering evidence for each evaluation area. Make sure your policies are helping you meet Ofsted's standards under the 2025 inspection framework.