These questions are intended to prompt discussion. Consultees are not required to agree or disagree with ISI’s starting assumptions and may raise any other relevant matters.
The proposal under consultation is to remove the ‘significant strength’ reporting from the ISI inspection framework. This would mean that inspection reports would no longer include a discrete identification of elements judged to represent a significant strength of a school’s provision. ISI inspection reports would continue to describe a school’s provision evaluatively. Reports will continue to include nuanced detail that will make clear where the school is doing particularly well in relation to the standards, and where, if applicable, provision is less well developed. ISI will continue to report the extent to which standards are met. If the proposal is not adopted, the Framework will continue in its current form for the second half of the current inspection cycle (until September 2029).
The full consultation document can be viewed here.
Participants will have five options to choose from as follows:
5 = Strongly agree
4 = Agree
3 = Neither agree nor disagree
2 = Disagree
1 = Strongly disagree
The survey will close on 11 June 2026.
