Ofsted to judge how schools use tutoring
When full inspections return next year, new Ofsted guidance says it will look at how schools use tutors to support the aims of the curriculum.
The school inspection handbook now states that where the school is directly deploying tutors to support education recovery from the pandemic, inspectors will consider how their deployment supports the aims of the school curriculum.
It explains the use of tutors will be integrated into the ‘quality of education’ and ‘leadership and management’ sections of Ofsted’s report and will not be inspected in its own right.
Turoring is one of the main aspects of the government's education recovery programme.
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