Ofsted - What is a Section 5 Inspection?

[jampots]

My ds's old school (some may remember we had some issues there) has recently been Ofsted inspected. My friend told me they barely scraped in with 3's across the board and its common knowledge that hte Chair of Governors had extremely long conversations with the Inspector in order to gain this grade. So, obviously Ive had to go look at the report (like you do) and see that it isnt a 9/10 report but a section 5 report. Whats the relevance of the section?

My DD's school was inspected under the old rules in 2002. They inspected for 5 days, gave loads of notice and took months to report back.

The modern rules (Section 5 of the Education Act 2005 ) means that inspections are much quicker and at shorter notice (so teachers don't have time to do a 'tidy-up' but are also not subjected to pre-inspection stress). DS's school has just had one and got a very good report.