The long awaited updated versions Working Together to Safeguarding Children and Information Sharing advice for Practitioners were issues today. I will blog about the changes and actions for schools in the next few weeks.

The information on assessment for children working below Key Stage Standards for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 have been released. These are for use in 2018-19, so we have a little time to work out the details.

The new guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education was released on May 17th 2018. It will come into force on September 3rd 2018.

For details of the changes please visit my blog.

This new guidance was issued on December 14th. It has a lot in it that schools need to consider, with particular implications for DSL training. I am working on advice and a list of possible actions for schools which I hope to have online before Christmas. In the meantime here is a link to the guidance.

On Friday 13th OFSTED issued new handbooks for 2017.

I have upload a version of both handbooks annotated to show the changes and documents listing the key changes.

School_inspection_handbook-section_8 annotated

School_inspection_handbook_section_5 annotated

Key messages and changes for the Handbook for inspecting schools in England under section 5 of the Education Act 2005

Key changes for OFSTED Handbook for short, monitoring and unannounced behaviour school inspections (Section 8 inspections)

I hope that these will be useful. Please let me know if I have missed anything.