Bill Esterson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bill Esterson on 2014-03-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he plans to allow Ofsted to inspect bodies which run chains of academy schools.

Mr Edward Timpson

Ofsted already inspects academy chains through batched inspections of schools within chains. It has recently undertaken focused inspections of academies within the E-ACT multi-academy trust and has previously inspected a group of academies within the AET chain. This has shown to be an effective approach and there are no plans to widen Ofsted’s role to inspect head offices.