Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 31
31
Deferred
Paragraph: 98
Improve transparency and accountability of Regional Directors' work and provide parliamentary reports.
Conclusion
The Department must improve the transparency and accountability of the work of the Regional Directors. At a minimum, it should provide an annual report to Parliament setting out the scope, detail and impact of their work and make Regional Directors available to give evidence to the Committee.
Government Response Summary
The government states that this recommendation, concerning the transparency and accountability of Regional Directors, is a matter for the DfE, not Ofsted, and commits to engaging with the DfE on it.
Paragraph Reference:
98
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
Many of the recommendations in the Committee’s report fall to the DfE, rather than Ofsted. We will engage with the DfE on inspection grades (Recommendation 14), on ensuring the consequences of inspection are proportionate (Recommendation 16), on support for schools that need to improve (particularly through our monitoring programmes) (Recommendation 18) and on considering new approaches to inspecting safeguarding (Recommendation 26). However, these are matters for the DfE, as is Recommendation 19 on improving the transparency and accountability of the work of the regional directors. ... Nearly all of the other recommendations fall to the DfE (Recommendations 4, 14, 16, 18 to 19, 26 and 28), and we commit to engaging with them on all relevant matters. We note that Recommendation 19 is not a matter for Ofsted.