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Ofsted News
Response to consultation on short inspections published
Last week Ofsted published its response to its consultation on changes to short inspections. Changes come into effect from January 2018 and relate to short inspections of good maintained schools and academies, and outstanding and good maintained nurseries, special schools and pupil referral units.
You can read the full consultation outcome
here.
Ofsted report on reception curriculum
On 30 November, Ofsted published the research report 'Reception curriculum in good and outstanding primary schools: bold beginnings'
This report looks at the Reception curriculum in successful schools and how well it prepares 4 and 5 year olds for the rest of their education and beyond.
You can read the report here.
DfE News
Green paper: 'Transforming children and young people's mental health provision'
On 4 December, the government published the green paper, 'Transforming children and young people's mental health provision', setting out proposals to improve mental health support by focusing on earlier intervention and prevention.
The consultation is open until midday on 2 March 2018. To read the full consultation document
go to this link.