Making the announcement today, Ofsted has also said that all schools will be given more clarity around what year they will be inspected
The moves form part of a number of measures being introduced by the inspectorate following debate around the effectiveness of Ofsted and after headteacher Ruth Perry took her own life when her school was downgraded.
Perry's sister, along with the National Education Union (see comment at bottom of story), have said that the changes don't go far enough however.
Returning to schools with ineffective safeguarding
Under the change, which will be effective immediately, inspectors will return to schools with an inadequate grading due to ineffective safeguarding and where all other judgements were ‘good’ or better, within three months of their last inspection report being published.
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