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New Ofsted website for parental views

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EllenJaneisnotmyname · 03/02/2012 20:21

Wondered if anyone had come across this website from Ofsted. It will be used as one of the triggers for an Ofsted inspection alongside results etc.

parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/

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mrz · 03/02/2012 20:23

There were a couple of threads when it was introduced last year and it was heavily publicised in the national press.

EllenJaneisnotmyname · 03/02/2012 20:25

Well, I completely missed them, sorry. Too much time on MN and not enough reading the broadsheets!

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mrz · 03/02/2012 20:27

It's a bit of a joke IMHO

EllenJaneisnotmyname · 03/02/2012 20:28

My deputy head seemed quite concerned about it this am, she's been going to some meetings about the new Ofsted framework.

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mrz · 03/02/2012 20:37

Does she have reason to be concerned?

EllenJaneisnotmyname · 03/02/2012 21:03

No, I don't think so. We have a couple of 'interesting' parents, one of whom isn't allowed on the premises due to threatening behaviour, but I think Ofsted would see through any posts from them.

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Feenie · 03/02/2012 21:03

It's a bit like Trip Advisor Grin

EllenJaneisnotmyname · 03/02/2012 21:04

That good, eh? Grin

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mrz · 03/02/2012 21:09

Probably slightly less reliable Confused

annh · 03/02/2012 21:17

I looked at the website and answered the questionnaire for the two schools our ds's are attending. However, the only questions it asks before you answer the questionnaire is whether you have a child attending the school and whether this is the first time this year you have responded.

If you had a grudge against a school, you could easily answer the questionnaire multiple times using different email addresses. Neither do you actually have to have a child at school as there is no way of checking - you could be a neighbour dis-satisfied with parking arrangements or someone whose child has failed to get into the school - anything really.

The responses are not free text, it is a prepared list of 12 (I think) questions which you mark from excellent to very unhappy, or similar.

And yes, I agree with the poster who described it as Trip Advisor for schools! Quite worrying as under the new no-notice inspections this is how the Ofsted inspectors are going to take account of parent views, given that there will be no opportunity to send out questionnaires in advance to parents.

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