Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills

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OfSted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. We inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people, and services providing education and skills for learners of all ages. OfSted is a non-ministerial department.
OfSted is a member of the National Preventive Mechanism, which monitors and reports on places of detention.

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  • Jun.21.2018: Ofsted backs return of old-school punishments. Schools which use old-fashioned punishments such as writing out lines or picking up playground litter to tackle bad behaviour will be backed by OfSted, chief inspector Amanda Spielman will say today. pupil behaviour is the number one concern that parents raise with OfSted and a primary driver of low morale among teachers. She says that mobile phones are part of the problem and offers support to head teachers who ban them. Head teachers have been urged to stop pupils from using mobile phones at school. Matt Hancock, culture secretary, told a conference on online safety hosted by the NSPCC, of research indicating that phones could distract children even if they were left on a table or in a bag. Rosemary Bennett, The Times.
  • Nov.11.2014: Teaching neoliberalism: time to replace Ofsted. Calls to reform OfSted don't go far enough - it's become a tool for the neoliberal take-over of our education, and needs to be replaced. OfSted has become a political tool of the Global Educational Reform Movement (GERM) project (neo-liberal project for the marketisation of education) not merely because of senior staff links with academy chains, the recently appointed chair is a trustee of the Academies Enterprise Trust chain, but through its judgements on schools being used by the DfE to force academisation of local authority schools, often against vehement parent opposition. GERM not only seeks to privatise education, and make what was public sector provision a source of profit for private companies such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation Inc § News International and Pearsons, but to narrow the purposes of education to one that links it directly to the country's competitive position in the global market. Martin Francis, openDemocracy.