What happens in the inspection following a 'special measures' outcome?

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A good friend works in a school that has recently (and wrongly, in the opinion of many) been put into special measures. The Head has unusually, retained her post. What happens at the next inspection? On the Ofsted site it says that the first day is spent with the Head going through and picking apart all of the data. The second day the inspectors focus on the areas identified in the school's action plan. However, I've also heard that this isn't the case and that they do a full inspection of all areas on both days.
Does anyone have any experience of this and any advice to offer please?
Thanks.

the second inspection they observe classes looking for points recognised in the first inspection and speak to the head then discuss a plan from there, from my friend that works in a school that has just come out of special measures, the best advice is to listen to what the previous report said and try to improve on the bits they suggested without upsetting the head.

Thanks Danann, will share with my friend.

I assume that the head must be relatively new in post. Dd's school has been rated inadequate (serious weankness rather than full blown special measures), but the head has not been sacked as she had only been at the school for a fortnight.

Usually the governors are all sacked and replaced with an interim local authority board. Nowadays schools in a category are expected to go down the forced/ sponsored academy route. Our school is getting a lot of support from the LEA to avoid forced academisation.

Expect a hellish term and at least half the teachers will be replaced. There will be another inspection 2 months after the orginal inspection.

Staff don't always change following special measures....I worked in a school that went into special measures. Only one teacher left (and she was leaving anyway due to her DH re locating with the army)...and the head had been there for many years....and indeed still is along with most of the same staff in a school that is now verging on outstanding..

ReallyTired, Head not new in post, but they have to go down the academy route.
hels71, thanks for the positivity, will be happy to share that with my friend.

Thanks Tiggytape. From what I know, the head has previously taken schools out of special measures and is very driven, which can only be a good thing for the school.

Our school went into SM in July. OFSTED have not been back since. Our Head is incredibly frustrated. Apparently their workload is too great and they can't say when they are coming back but that they are 'not worried' about our school!!

If the head has previous experience of turning schools around then the situation is almost certainly that they came to the school knowing that it was a problem school. The LA will have probably been involved in getting this new head teacher in and the honest truth is that whilst a new head can improve a school very quickly, the KS1 and KS2 results improving will always lag significantly behind the progress that can be seen in the classroom on a daily basis.