13 January 2020 Ofsted announces proposals to inspect outstanding schools

The Government has proposed that Ofsted will inspect schools currently rated as outstanding from September 2020

Schools rated as outstanding are currently exempt from inspection.  Under the proposals, which are the subject of a consultation, all outstanding schools will be brought back into the regular inspection cycle, with Ofsted visiting them every four or five years.  This will affect about 3700 schools when the exemption is lifted in September

The proposals, which are subject to Parliamentary approval, will prioritise those schools which have gone the longest since inspection