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Is your school likely to be inspected soon? If the answer is yes, we have something to help you 💙 Our new ‘Inspection Support’ downloadable resource provides a list of information schools must provide for a lead inspector, as listed in the School Inspection Handbook from September 2024 for Graded and Ungraded inspections. Handy tips on how to present this information are provided, based on the experiences of schools and training inspectors have received. Purchase yours here for just £6: https://loom.ly/Hywtef4 #focuseducation #primaryeducation #download #earlyyears #education #school #teachers #teaching #ofsted #ofstedinspection

Had a training last night for government contracting. You can never stop learning and growing in this arena. If this is a customer you want to work with, what are you doing to position yourself??? #vet2mom #governmentcontracting #training #government #educate #womanowned #veteranowned

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Learn the Fundamentals of How to Inspect the exterior for Home Inspector Education! The more you know, the more you're worth! Watch now: https://lnkd.in/gTWK5Wsi #homeinspection #YouAlwaysGetMore #reviews #viral

WILL OFSTED'S NEW SCHEDULES CREATE A CRISIS EVERY WEEK? Word reaches me that some inspectors of various levels of experience are a bit worried about Ofsted's new inspection arrangements. These involve all routine school inspections being on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. What could possibly go wrong? Inspectors are pointing out that this means that every lead inspector who needs to call the Duty Desk will be doing so at the same time....and that could be dozens of inspectors. Probably on a Wednesday. This creates a capacity problem for Ofsted, because they also need to have as many HMI out in the field inspecting as they can on the same days of the week....Tuesdays and Wednesdays. What happens if you have a difficult inspection, with everyone lined up for a challenging feedback, and the lead inspector is stuck at 'You are number sixteen in the queue'? An additional problem is that schools have been told 'If it is not possible to resolve concerns with the lead inspector, senior leaders can telephone Ofsted during an inspection or on the next working day to speak with a senior inspector.’ This is in case things are going badly wrong or you have concerns about the competence or behaviour of an inspector...but what if you are then stuck at number seventeen in the queue? The fact that inspectors are worried about this suggests that they have concerns about the level of staffing Ofsted can provide for their phone service, for just a day or two a week. My advice: get your call in early, such as 9am on a Tuesday! #inspection #Ofsted

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Not everything we call training is really training. A lot of it is just information delivery. Information delivery is not always training, although training is one of four types of information delivery. The problem becomes one of accountability. We can't hold people accountable to information delivery alone, there has to an assessment. Even then, if there is an assessment, it reduces the four types of information delivery to two: education and training. But, if your assessments are poorly constructed, there's no real assessment, but people are still held accountable. There's nothing wrong with information delivery, but quit calling all of it training - call it what it is and set your expectations for the results accordingly. #InstructionalDesign #LearningStrategy #TrainingDevelopment #eLearningDevelopment

And it keeps on coming..... Matthew Pennycook has written to PINS on the examination of Local Plans. The letter, which can be found at the link below, includes the following: "Pragmatism should be used only where it is likely a plan is capable of being found sound with limited additional work to address soundness issues. Any pauses to undertake additional work should usually take no more than six months overall. Pragmatism should not be used to address fundamental issues with the soundness of a plan, which would be likely to require pausing or delaying the examination process for more than six months overall. Local authorities should provide regular progress updates of their work to the Planning Inspector during any agreed pause. Any extensions to the six-month pause should only be allowed at Inspectors' discretion to deliver adopted local plans under the current system. In agreeing extensions, the Inspector should be confident that the local authority can complete any outstanding work in the agreed timeframe. This new approach will apply to all plans with immediate effect. Existing pauses already agreed by an Inspector should remain in place unless the Inspector considers there is insufficient progress being made." https://lnkd.in/dqfZg9up #definitelyplanningreformweek #needmorecoffee #HappyAlmostAugust

The Department of Justice and Attorney-General has released two foundational online training modules developed to support the commencement of the new coercive control legislation starting on 26 May 2025. https://lnkd.in/gHXcikdF #CoerciveControl #Coercion #CriticalThinking #Training