The Latest Breaking News from Ofsted

Rising numbers unable to understand facial expressions and have communication and self-care delays

Wearing face masks continued to have a negative impact on young children's language and communication skills, the education watchdog said.

Primary school aged children have been placed in unregulated hotels youngsters have disappeared from

National Education Union found ‘no compelling reason’ for all schools in England to join academy trusts

The Youth Sport Trust has called for an end to outdated PE lessons and to create a well-being-led sports curriculum that will boost the number of children who do sport

Editorial: The Tory conviction that academies drive improvement is not supported by evidence – and ministers know it

England has had a schools inspectorate since 1839, first in the form of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Schools and, since 1992, in the form of the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted). Our recently published research examines how the inspectorate has policed language in schools, enforcing…

Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi unveiled the new schools white paper setting out his vision over the next decade - but critics warned it was 'failing to get the basics right'

Prisons are failing to teach inmates to read which leaves them more likely to reoffend, a damning Ofsted report has warned.