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72-648: The NERC Environmental Data Centres and their areas of responsibility are as follows: The data centres hold data from environmental scientists working in the UK and around the world. They provide access to a comprehensive data and information resource about our environment, through the NERC Data Catalog Service. As of 2018 CEDA hosts the NERC Data Catalog Service, data may also be cataloged from certain NERC Data Centres and also at data.gov.uk . Access to these data

144-508: A 50 to 57 hour week. Geoff Barton, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders , said "Ofsted and the government are the source of much of the stress and anxiety on staff through an extremely high-pressure accountability system." On 8 January 2023, Ruth Perry, head at Caversham Primary School in Reading, Berkshire , took her own life while waiting for the publication of

216-530: A Section 8 to confirm a Good School's continual status, they may extend the inspection by one day so converting it into a Section 5 in order to grade the school outstanding. Section 8 of the Education Act 2005 (as amended) gives the Secretary of State the legal authority to request His Majesty's Chief Inspector (HMCI) to enter a school for the purpose of obtaining information. Section 8 Inspections cannot change

288-540: A case where a school had been downgraded: We couldn't understand this rationale at all. It turned out that Ofsted had made a brief visit to the school some time before the inspection and had come up with some sort of unreported provisional judgement. So all that evidence we had gathered meant nothing and essentially this team of experienced inspectors was not trusted to make a judgement. Barton concluded his article, "the accounts above reveal an inspection system that appears in too many cases to be doing great damage. My sense

360-404: A human-friendly format such as a PDF file containing a pivot table. data.gov.uk functions as a searchable data catalogue, with links to data that is hosted by the individual UK Government departments, and does not host data itself. In addition to the data searchable through the data.gov.uk site, from 2016 until 2021 , a very small number of datasets were made available as 'registers' through

432-412: A neutral or negative impact on students' results. In response to criticisms about the increased workload inspection frameworks caused, Ofsted pledged it would not change its inspection framework during the school year. Wilshaw also dismissed speculation that Ofsted itself was responsible for teachers' heavy workload (in excess of 60 hours per week) describing it as 'a red herring'. However, a 2015 poll by

504-471: A nominal handling charge. The NERC Science Information Strategy (SIS) was created to provide the framework for NERC to work more closely and effectively with its scientific communities, both internal and external, in delivering data and information management services to support its five-year science strategy, the Next Generation Science for Planet Earth 2007–2012. The Science Information Strategy

576-477: A reduction from 19% to 9% in the number of schools judged to be Outstanding, and an increase from 4% to 10% in the number of schools judged to be Inadequate. A framework for section 5 inspections of academies and maintained schools was introduced from January 2012, and replaced with another new framework in September 2012. Public consultation was undertaken, and Ofsted prepared for the new framework after piloting

648-606: A report on the school on its website. In addition to written comments on a number of areas, schools were assessed on each area and overall on a 4-point scale: 1 (Outstanding), 2 (Good), 3 (Satisfactory) and 4 (Inadequate). Schools rated Outstanding or Good might not be inspected again for five years, while schools judged less favourably were inspected more frequently, and might receive little or no notice of inspection visits. Figures published in March 2010 showed that revised inspection criteria, which were introduced in September 2009, resulted in

720-580: A report that downgraded her school from outstanding to inadequate. Perry's family said she had described the previous November's inspection as the worst day of her life. The National Education Union, school leaders' union NAHT and the Association of School and College Leaders called for inspections to be halted, and a petition calling for an enquiry into the inspection received more than 230,000 signatures. HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills (the head of Ofsted), Amanda Spielman , rejected

792-428: A schools allocated designation but can trigger a Section 5 Inspection where that might happen. They are used in three ways: This is followed by : Inspection judgements form the body of the report. For each heading, eight or more critical paragraphs, at the inspectors discretion, are written that support the grade given. The two principal strands that are being examined are the effectiveness of safeguarding of

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864-570: A series of inspections across the country. Among other changes, the new system relabelled the "Satisfactory" category as "Requires Improvement", with an expectation that schools should not remain at that level. In 2015 they published a Common Inspection Framework, and four handbooks which gave much of the details of inspections. These are no longer/not statutory documents so can be changed regularly. The four handbooks are: A new Education Inspection Framework (EIF) introduced from September 2019 sets out how Ofsted undertakes inspections under section 5 of

936-453: A system that existed until 2005. This system was based on schools being inspected by teams containing three types of inspector. Each team was led by a 'registered' inspector. They were accompanied by a number of 'team' inspectors, the number of which depended on the size of the school. Each team also contained 'lay' inspector recruited from outside the world of education. In September 2005 the distinction between registered, team and lay inspectors

1008-398: A wide range of public sector data, ranging from traffic statistics to crime figures. The data can be used for private or commercial purposes. The aim is to kick-start the development of services that find novel ways to make use of the information. All data included in data.gov.uk is covered either by Crown copyright protections, or the database right , or copyright have been licensed to

1080-640: Is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government , reporting to Parliament . Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education, training and childcare services in England do so to a high standard for children and students. Ofsted is responsible for inspecting a range of educational institutions, including state schools and some independent schools. It also inspects childcare, adoption and fostering agencies and initial teacher training, and regulates early years childcare facilities and children's social care services. The chief inspector ("HMCI")

1152-663: Is a growing trend amongst governments toward more data transparency. In the United States of America, the Obama administration launched data.gov , which opens up data from various departments, including the United States Department of Defense (US DoD) and NASA . The European Public Sector Information (PSI) Platform maintains a list of PSI data catalogues provided by governments, and providing direct access to data. The European Commission (EC) has created two portals for

1224-638: Is appointed by an Order in Council and thus becomes an office holder under the Crown. Sir Martyn Oliver has been HMCI since 2024 ; since August 2020 the chair of Ofsted has been Christine Ryan : her predecessors include Julius Weinberg and David Hoare. Ofsted publish reports on the quality of education and management at a particular school and organisation on a regular basis. His Majesty's Inspectors (HMI) rank schools based on information gathered in inspections which they undertake. An Ofsted section 5 inspection

1296-557: Is being implemented in three phases, beginning April 2010. Each of these phases will be made up of a number of smaller projects. Project/Phase 1 will concentrate on determining user requirements, documenting existing holdings, agreeing an information architecture, updating the NERC Data Policy and improving the data discovery tools. The benefits of the SIS implementation for science include the increased competence of data centre staff to inform

1368-676: Is called a 'full report' and administered under section 5 of the 2005 Education Act , while a monitoring visit is conducted under the authority given by section 8 of the 2005 Education Act and can also be called an Ofsted section 8 inspection . In 1833, Parliament agreed an annual grant to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education and the British and Foreign School Society , which respectively provided Church of England and non-denominational elementary schools for poor children. In 1837, two inspectors of schools, Seymour Tremenheere and

1440-416: Is commitment to support the long-term management of environmental data and also outlines the roles and responsibilities of all those involved in collecting and managing environmental data. The NERC Data Centres provide support and guidance in data management to those funded by NERC, are responsible for the long-term management of data and provide access to NERC's holdings of environmental data. The Data Policy

1512-593: Is consistent with legal frameworks, such as the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, the INSPIRE Regulations 2009 and contractual arrangements with other bodies where, for example, NERC holds data on their behalf but does not own the intellectual property rights. To reflect NERC's continuing commitment to openness and transparency in the research process, and in support of the government's developing agenda on open access to public data,

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1584-491: Is freely available to students, researchers and stakeholders, as well as business users and policy makers, to help them understand the environment in which we live. Each data centre works to build user confidence, using common data formats and noting sources, contexts, and degrees of accuracy. They combine expertise in the scientific collection of information, state-of-the-art data management and preservation techniques, making them an important national asset. The NERC Data Policy

1656-555: Is non-personal, and provided in a format that allows it to be reused. data.gov.uk intends to increase the use of Linked Data standards, to allow people to provide data to data.gov.uk in a way that allows for flexible and easy reuse. As of April 2010 , the following UK Government departments and agencies have provided data sets to data.gov.uk: BusinessLink , the Cabinet Office , the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills ,

1728-480: Is that it's time to stop quietly accepting that the way Ofsted is the way Ofsted should be." In response, Wilshaw attacked Barton for being "too quick to perpetuate a 'them against us' view of the schools inspectorate... we fall back on a 'clichéd defence-mechanism' of whingeing about inconsistency", and insisted that Ofsted was becoming "more rigorous and demanding". However, Barton argued the letter lost some of its force and all of its credibility for being published on

1800-541: The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) which said "Ofsted is over-reliant on number crunching, using test data which are fundamentally unsound" and added that the organisation was "ripe for overhaul". Over a period of several years the Select Committee had questioned the Chief Inspector over its treatment of Summerhill School and what it had learnt from the 1999 Court Case and subsequent inspections. In

1872-407: The Department for Children, Schools and Families , the Department for Communities and Local Government , the Department for Culture, Media and Sport , the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs , the Department for International Development , the Department for Transport , the Department for Work and Pensions , the Department of Energy and Climate Change , the Department of Health ,

1944-616: The Education and Skills Act 2008 , the Education and Inspections Act 2006 and the Childcare Act 2006 . The current Chief Inspector is Sir Martyn Oliver , who was appointed in January 2024 replacing Amanda Spielman . Ofsted directly employs His Majesty's Inspectors (HMI), who are appointed by the King in Council. As of July 2009 , there were 443 HMIs, of whom 82 were engaged in management, 245 in

2016-849: The European Union (EU): the EU Open Data Portal , which gives access to open data from the EU institutions, agencies, and other bodies, and the PublicData portal that provides datasets from local, regional, and national public bodies across Europe . In the Netherlands, the DataverseNL Network hosts data deposited by Dutch Universities and Institutes. Ofsted The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills ( Ofsted )

2088-729: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office , the Home Office , His Majesty's Treasury , Lichfield District Council , Runnymede Borough Council , the Ministry of Defence , the Ministry of Justice , the Northern Ireland Office , the Ordnance Survey , and the Society of Information Technology Management . When data.gov.uk was officially launched in January 2010, Ordnance Survey (OS) data was one of

2160-1236: The HM Treasury had refused requests to release COIN data, on the grounds that it contained FOI-exempt data on future defence and security services spending. HM Treasury also cited "the impenetrability of the information to a lay user" and "the potential significant cost and difficulty of rebutting misunderstandings" as reasons for not releasing the data. data.gov.uk is working with UK Government departments , agencies, and local authorities to release more data. Shadbolt also wants local government data included in data.gov.uk. The UK Parliament 's Public Accounts Committee noted in 2012 that "more could be done to assist interpretation and to build on emerging interest". King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee data.gov.uk offers

2232-525: The NUT found that 53% of teachers were planning to leave teaching by 2017, with the extra workload from Ofsted's 'accountability agenda' a key factor in seeking a job with a better work/life balance. The Ofsted complaints procedure has also been heavily criticised for opacity and a strong bias in favour of the inspectors. Geoff Barton, after writing an article strongly critical of Ofsted's use of raw data rather than inspection reports to determine grades, noted that:

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2304-468: The "central nervous system" of the school – examining how well the school was managed, and what processes were in place to ensure standards improve; the school leadership and management were expected to be aware of everything in the SEF. The SEF served as the main document when planning the inspection, and was crucial in evaluating the school's capacity to improve. After an inspection of a school, Ofsted published

2376-546: The 30 September 2009 ; 15 years ago  ( 2009-09-30 ) , and by January 2010 more than 2,400 developers had registered to test the site, provide feedback and start experimenting with the data. When the project was officially launched in January 2010, it contained 2,500 data sets, and developers had already built a site that showed the location of schools according to the rating assigned to them by education watchdog Ofsted . data.gov.uk contains over 30,000 data sets from many UK Government departments . All data

2448-640: The Court Agreement between DfE and Summerhill School, Independent Schools Tribunal IST/59, inspections would include two advisors from the school and one from the DfE to ensure the fairness of the process. The school had campaigned for all schools to be similarly inspected, ensuring openness and accountability for the process. In August 2013, 18 of the 24 newly launched Free Schools were graded Good or Outstanding by Ofsted; however, with over 100 state schools being downgraded from an Outstanding classification that year,

2520-828: The Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. When users submit information to data.gov.uk, they grant the Crown a non-exclusive, irrevocable right to use and pass on all public information submitted, such as descriptions of ideas and screenshots of apps, as well as the right to re-use allow the re-use of that information. All content on the site is placed under the same licence terms as the data, though user ideas and application remain their own. The Crown copyright licence does not affect fair dealing or fair use rights, or any other exceptions and limitations to copyright or database rights . The data are licensed 'as is', and data.gov.uk does not accept liabilities in relation to

2592-424: The Crown . In turn, all data available on data.gov.uk is available under a worldwide, royalty -free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence which permits use of the data under the following conditions: the copyright and the source of the data should be acknowledged by including an attribution statement specified by data.gov.uk, which is ' name of data provider' data © Crown copyright and database right . The inclusion of

2664-519: The Day care Standards provisions of the 1989 Children Act . Schedule 11 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 changed the way in which Ofsted works without significantly changing the provision. Since 2006 the structure of Ofsted has derived elements from business models, with a chair, an executive board, regional officers, and a formal annual report to Parliament in the light of concerns about schools, and local authority children's services. In April 2007,

2736-473: The Education Act 2005 (as amended), section 109 of the Education and Skills Act 2008, the Education and Inspections Act 2006 and the Childcare Act 2006. A Section 5 is also known as a full inspection; a section 8 is also called a monitoring visit. When the inspectors find serious causes for concern, they may extend the section 8 so it becomes a section 5 with the additional legal powers. Similarly, when using

2808-622: The Education and Training Inspectorate in Northern Ireland, Education Scotland (previously HM Inspectorate of Education ) in Scotland, and Estyn in Wales perform similar functions within their education systems. A new Education Inspection Framework (EIF) introduced from September 2019 sets out how Ofsted undertakes inspections under section 5 of the Education Act 2005 (as amended), section 109 of

2880-515: The NERC Data Policy has been substantially revised, and this new version of NERC's Data Policy came into force in January 2011. The NERC charging regime recognises two classes of data: The licence charges that NERC can levy for the supply of data and information are governed by HM Treasury guidance and Government regulations. During 2010 NERC aimed to move to a position where it will supply its data for free for all teaching and research activities, apart from large or complex requests where they may make

2952-571: The Ofsted complaints procedure too often seems constructed around a deep and dutiful need for self-protection. Thus an inspection system that demands transparency from schools refuses to release its own inspection notes, When challenged, it dares us to resort to a Freedom of Information request and then rejects those same requests because they don't conform to a definition of "public interest". In 2015, an inspector revealed that inspection judgements can be arbitrarily over-ruled by senior figures, commenting on

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3024-632: The Registers Service. Registers were structured raw datasets that are intended to be a canonical, reliable, and always up-to-date source of data. Registers shared a common API , and can be read by both humans and machines. They were offered as JSON , CSV, and RDF files, the latter allowing to link multiple registers together. The Registers service was retired on 15 March 2021. On the 29 January 2010, Boris Johnson , then Mayor of London , opened an online data warehouse containing more than 200 data sets from London city authorities . There

3096-657: The Reverend John Allen, were appointed to monitor the effectiveness of the grant. James Kay-Shuttleworth , then Secretary of the Privy Council 's Education Committee, ensured that the inspectors were appointed by Order in Council to guard their independence. The grant and inspection system was extended in 1847 to Roman Catholic elementary schools established by the Catholic Poor School Committee . Inspectors were organised on denominational lines, with

3168-553: The UK government stated that data for the current financial year (2010/11) will be released in June 2011. On 15 June, the UK Government published the COINS data for the financial years 2008/09, 2007/08, 2006/07, and 2005/06 on data.gov.uk. Within 24 hours of the release the data was also made available through the (now defunct) RA.Pid Gateway webportal run by Rosslyn Analytics . In the past,

3240-442: The benefit of schools, parents, and government instead of reporting to the Secretary of State. In September 2001, HM Chief Inspector of Schools in England became responsible for registration and inspection of day care and childminding in England, and the position was renamed HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills . Previously this was done by 150 local authorities , based on their implementation by 1992 of

3312-578: The calls to halt Ofsted inspections. As a reaction to the news of Perry's death, heads at some schools have worn black armbands during inspections or removed references to Ofsted from their websites. On 25 March 2023, research carried out by the Hazards Campaign and the University of Leeds as reported in The Observer , stated that "Stress caused by Ofsted inspections was cited in coroners' reports on

3384-432: The churches having a say in the choice of inspectors, until 1876, when the inspectorate was reorganised by area. After the Education Act 1902 , inspections were expanded to state-funded secondary schools along similar lines. Over time more inspections were carried out by inspectors based in local education authorities , with His Majesty's Inspectorate (HMI) focusing on reporting to the Secretary of State on education across

3456-657: The commitment made in Putting the Frontline First to integrate data from the Publications Hub for National Statistics and to release more data relating to health. The site uses the CKAN platform for data publishing. There is high variability in the format and presentation of the data; some data files are available as structured raw data in a machine-readable format such as CSV , while others are only available as analysed data in

3528-510: The consistency of Ofsted grading was once again brought into question, leading to numerous 'How to get a Good Ofsted' guides being created. A 2014 report by the think tank Policy Exchange indicated that many Ofsted inspectors lack the knowledge required to make fair judgements of lessons and that judgements are so unreliable, "you would be better off flipping a coin". A 2014 poll of teachers, carried out by Teacher Support Network , revealed that over 90% of teachers felt Ofsted inspections had

3600-511: The contracts with the RISPs who are no more. 40% of additional inspectors who wanted to continue working for Ofsted were not re-hired after the contractual change. Although Ofsted insisted that this was part of a quality control process and "should not be seen as an admission that its inspections were substandard", serving headteacher and Times Educational Supplement columnist Geoff Barton commented "dispensing with almost 40 per cent of inspectors on

3672-456: The country. The government of John Major , concerned about variable local inspection regimes, decided to introduce a national scheme of inspections through a reconstituted HMI, which became known as the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted). Under the Education (Schools) Act 1992 , HMI would supervise the inspection of each state-funded school in the country, and would publish its reports for

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3744-632: The data or provide warranties . Neither does data.gov.uk guarantee the continued supply of the data. Authorised by the UK Cabinet Office , and aimed for the release of public data to become 'business as usual' across public bodies, as set out in Putting the Frontline First: Smarter Government , which established the UK Government 's approach to public data and the release of that data. data.gov.uk amongst others, delivers on

3816-408: The data, adapt the data, exploit the data commercially, whether by sub-licensing it, combining it with other data, or by including it in products and applications. The terms of the licence are aligned with any Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence . Hence data.gov.uk data can be mixed with information licensed under Creative Commons licences to create derivative work, which can be distributed under

3888-423: The day 40% of inspectors were sacked for not being up to the job. In 2019, Ofsted commissioned a survey on teachers' wellbeing. The Guardian reported that "Teachers said they spent less than half their time in the classroom, with the bulk of their hours spent on marking, planning and administration, including data entry and feedback required by school management to prepare for Ofsted inspections." Teachers worked

3960-401: The financial years 2008/09 and 2009/10. The Combined Online Information System, known as COINS, operates as the UK Government's central accounting system. COINS data details the spend of all government departments, and their major spending programmes. The 4.3 GB of COIN data included 3.2 million items for the financial year 2009/10, and was released using BitTorrent . At the time,

4032-672: The following: Ofsted is one of the partner inspectorates contributing to joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs), along with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services . There are two types of JTAI: Ofsted was criticised as 'not fit for purpose' in 2007 by the House of Commons Education Select Committee. The committee also highlighted their concern about "the complex set of objectives and sectors that Ofsted now spans and its capacity to fulfil its core mission". Other criticism came from

4104-554: The former Office for Standards in Education merged with the Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI) to provide an inspection service that includes all post-16 government funded education (but not Higher Education Institutes and Universities which are inspected by the Quality Assurance Agency ). At the same time it took on responsibility for the registration and inspection of social care services for children, and

4176-451: The grounds of quality is hardly an endorsement of standards." An HMI accompanies an Ofsted inspector on a sample of inspections, including 75% of those of secondary schools. Reports produced by RISPs must be checked and signed off by HMI, sometimes with amendments, before publication. New Additional Inspectors must be monitored and signed off by HMI before working independently. The number of RISPs contracted to conduct school inspections

4248-399: The inspection of schools, and the rest in the inspection of other areas for which Ofsted in responsible. All HMIs inspecting schools have teaching experience. When Ofsted was created the original plan was that inspectors would not be drawn from education. the plan was to give parents an independent review of a school untainted by the education establishment. This plan was quickly replaced by

4320-580: The key data sets that Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Prof Nigel Shadbolt wanted to see opened up as part of the project. Ordnance Survey data was included in data.gov.uk on 1 April 2010 and provides information on geographical locations. According to Shadbolt, it "will make a real difference to the way that people make sense of the information". On the 3 June 2010, the Treasury released the Combined Online Information System (COINS) data for

4392-442: The overall quality of education and training. Inspection reports provides important information to parents, carers, learners and employers about the quality of education, training and care. These groups should be able to make informed choices based on the information published in inspection reports. Ofsted monitors standards in schools, and tells schools what they are doing right and what they must do to improve. Before 2005 each school

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4464-406: The same acknowledgement is required in sub-licensing of the data, and further sub-licences should require the same. The data should not be used in a way that suggests that the data provider endorses the use of the data. And the data or its source should not be misrepresented. The Open Government Licence (OGL) applies to Crown copyright data, and permits anyone to copy, distribute, and transmit

4536-412: The school is no longer deemed to be failing. Furthermore, the senior managers and teaching staff can be dismissed and the governing body may be replaced by an appointed Interim Executive Board (IEB). Schools which are failing but where inspectors consider there is capacity to improve are given a Notice to Improve (NtI). Ofsted, as of April 2015, was issuing new guidance to inspectors which will include

4608-475: The science community, policy and decision makers nationally and internationally on best practice, standards development and the establishment of new projects and initiatives (e.g. EU Framework projects): enhancing NERC's national and international reputation and increased capability to conduct multi-disciplinary, integrated science. Data.gov.uk data.gov.uk is a UK Government project to make available non-personal UK government data as open data . It

4680-492: The students and the impact of governance and management. Inspectors make graded judgements on the following areas: A school is placed into special measures if it is judged as 'inadequate' (Grade 4) in one or more areas and if the inspectors have decided it does not have the capacity to improve without additional help. Schools placed into special measures receive intensive support from local authorities, additional funding and resourcing, and frequent reappraisal from Ofsted until

4752-480: The welfare inspection of independent and maintained boarding schools from the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI). The services Ofsted inspects or regulates include local services, childminding , child day care , children's centres, children's social care, CAFCASS , state schools , private schools and teacher training providers, colleges , and learning and skills providers in England. It also monitors

4824-636: The work of the Independent Schools Inspectorate . HMI are empowered and required to provide independent advice to the United Kingdom government and parliament on matters of policy and to publish an annual report to parliament on the quality of educational provision in England . Ofsted distributes its functions amongst its offices in London, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Cambridge, York, Darlington and Bristol. Ofsted covers only England;

4896-423: Was forced to admit that it had done no quality control checks on these inspectors, and that a few of them – including lead inspectors – were not qualified teachers as prior to 2005 they had been 'lay' inspectors. In 2015, the chief inspector (Sir Michael Wilshall) decided that he wanted more direct control over Ofsted inspectors brought responsibility for their training, deployment and quality 'in-house' and abolished

4968-501: Was inspected for a week every six years, with two months' notice to prepare for an inspection. In September 2005 a new system of short-notice inspections came into being. Under this system the senior leadership of each school were strongly encouraged to complete a Self Evaluation Form (SEF) on a continual basis, which required them to be aware of strengths and areas for development. Inspections were generally two- or three-day visits every three years, with two days' notice. They focussed on

5040-565: Was launched as closed beta in 30 September 2009 ; 15 years ago  ( 2009-09-30 ) , and publicly launched in January ;2010 ; 14 years ago  ( 2010-01 ) . As of February 2015 , it contained over 19,343 datasets, rising to over 40,000 in 2017 , and more than 47,000 by 2023 . data.gov.uk is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org. The beta version of data.gov.uk has been online since

5112-909: Was reduced in 2009 from five to three: As of January 2021 , seventy per-cent of the inspectors are now headteachers or school leaders. Ofsted publish reports on the quality of education and management at a particular school and organisation on a regular basis. His Majesty's Inspectors (HMI) rank schools based on information gathered in inspections which they undertake. Inspectors carry out regular inspections of all maintained schools and academies, some independent schools, colleges, apprenticeship providers, prison education and many other educational institutions and programmes outside of higher education. Ofsted aims to improve lives by raising standards in education and children's social care. Ofsted monitors standards in schools, and tells schools what they are doing right and what they must do to improve. Inspectors publish reports of findings so they can be used to improve

5184-424: Was removed and all contracted inspectors (as opposed to directly employed HMI) became 'Ofsted inspectors'. Most school inspections were carried out by additional Inspectors (AI) employed by external companies known as Regional Inspection Service Providers (RISPs). As of July 2009 , there were 1,948 AIs, of whom 1,567 inspect schools. Although Ofsted claims that most of these have teaching experience, in 2012 it

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