Readiness for Ofsted Inspection: Insights for school leaders
With the launch of the new Ofsted framework from November 2025, readiness for inspection is particularly critical. SSAT have been monitoring how the reality of inspection has matched the rhetoric of proposed changes. This webinar will help leaders of schools “in the window” to see the ways in which recent inspections have evolved and be prepared for what comes next.
Start date
Wednesday 21 January 2026
16:00 - 17:00
Format
Online
Need more information?
Get in touch or call 020 7802 2300
Readiness for Inspection: Insights for school leaders
Wednesday 21 January 2026
SSAT has tracked every one of more than 24,000 “need to improve” bullet points in every Ofsted report for schools inspected since September 2023. Our tracker provides school leaders with rich analysis and focused insights about the inspection process as it really is, helping you identify your next steps before inspection to optimise outcomes during inspection.
With the launch of Ofsted’s newest inspection framework, much has been made of how things are changing but much remains the same. Our analysis focuses on how inspection is evolving. We have mapped our historic data against the new framework, and, from November, we will track every ‘next step’ for every school and assess its contribution towards new judgements.
SSAT’s Inspection Tracker Insights Sample
View a sample of SSAT’s Inspection Insights report which provides an unprecedented level of school inspection trends and analysis and is the basis for the Readiness for Inspection webinar.
Bringing historic data together with emerging insights from the first published reports under the new framework, our January 2026 webinar will explore with school leaders
- Frequency – which strands of the framework and which next steps are most common
- Trends – what is ‘heating up’ or ‘cooling down’ in terms of inspection focus
- Risks – how inspection needs correlate with judgements, and which are riskiest
- Stratification – how different phases, regions and school types impact upon inspections
- Leadership – what leaders at all levels should be doing, considering these insights
This webinar is recommended for:
- School leaders from all sectors approaching or within the inspection window
- Governors, trustees, MAT leaders and LA advisors and others supporting schools
- Colleagues in organisations providing support services and CPDL for schools
Host information
Dr Keven Bartle, Senior Education Lead, SSAT
Keven has been a teacher for almost three decades and was headteacher at a richly diverse secondary school in London for nine years. Through his career, Keven has been committed to the power of education for social justice and transformation, working in schools where staff make a difference to the lives of children, families and communities.
Further reading: Inspection Insights: How have improvement needs changed between 2023/24 and 2024/25?
Personalised / urgent support
We are happy to provide a bespoke ‘readiness for inspection’ webinar for leaders in your school or MAT. Our bespoke webinars include more highly contextualised insights based on your type of setting, your inspection history, and your region/locality.
*All prices exclusive of VAT
Date and location
16:00 - 17:00
Online
What recent Ofsted inspections might tell us about the next steps for schools
For the last two academic years, SSAT has been tracking every ‘need to improve’ comment from every Ofsted inspection of an education setting, and there is much that needs to be discussed and considered.
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