Post-inspection action plan: guidance and template

Use our template to set out your strategic improvement plan after an Ofsted inspection, based on feedback from inspectors. Plus, find tips to help you get the most out of your plan.

Last reviewed on 19 December 2025
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Contents
  1. An action plan can help you plan your next steps after inspection
  2. Use the feedback from inspectors to decide your priorities
  3. Download our template 
  4. Make sure your plan is evidence-driven
  5. An action plan will also be useful for monitoring inspections
  6. Remember to celebrate improvements

An action plan can help you plan your next steps after inspection

Following an Ofsted inspection, use the feedback from inspectors to develop a plan based on your school's identified areas for improvement. This will help support continuing school improvement no matter what your school's inspection outcome was.

Maintained schools and academies: use a format that works for you

Ofsted doesn't require you to produce a specific post-inspection action plan.

Decide whether it would be more useful to create a specific plan based on inspectors' feedback (you can use the template in this article to help you) or to incorporate the feedback into your existing strategic documents. For example, your:

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