Agenda item

Robin Crofts, Director of Education, updated members on the new Common Inspection Framework for schools, which was operable from September 2015.

Members were advised that the new Framework was designed to provide a greater consistency in the way in which inspections of voluntary or foundation schools ‘with a religious character’ were carried out. Academies that were designated as having a religious character were inspected in an equivalent way via provisions set out in the academy’s funding agreement.  Academies without a defined religious character had a requirement to provide Collective Worship of a ‘broadly Christian nature’.

It was confirmed that the changes outlined in the report were minimal, and the report was noted.