Guidance
In this Guidance Area we post documents connected to identity, diversity, equality, community, SMSC including British values, safeguarding, bullying and the National Curriculum.
Summary documents made by TLN of the latest guidance from the Ofsted Inspection Handbook, DfE British values and SMSC Guidance from the DfE. These can be useful for delivering staff training on SMSC or Schools Linking. We update these when documents are updated so do please check back here for updates.
Guidance Documents
Statutory government guidance that we find useful, connected to identity, diversity, equality, community, SMSC including British values, safeguarding, bullying and curriculum.
- Ofsted inspection handbook September 2018 new version has changes to curriculum and safeguarding. There are no changes to SMSC orBritish values.
- Ofsted non-association independent school handbook new edition August 2018
- Ofsted early years inspection handbook April 2018
- Ofsted common inspection framework: education, skills and early years Sept 2015 This has not been changed since September 2015.
- Ofsted Inspecting Safeguarding new edition September 2018
- Ofsted further education and skills inspection handbook April 2018
- School strategies for preventing and tackling bullying:
- Promoting fundamental British values through SMSC
- SMSC requirements for independent schools Nov 2013
- SMSC requirements for independent schools supplementary Nov 2014
- The national curriculum
- What maintained schools must publish online
- Ofsted examples of good practice in schools: diversity
- Ofsted examples of good practice in schools: gypsy, traveller and Roma children
- Ofsted examples of good practice in schools: PSHE and Citizenship
- Ofsted examples of good practice in schools: religious education
Reports and Papers
The reports and papers below are relevant to work on identity, diversity, community and equality in education
