Inspectors make a judgment about standards of behaviour every time they inspect a school. Ofsted will further strengthen their focus on behaviour by giving inspectors additional guidance that clearly identifies the characteristics of satisfactory and inadequate standards of behaviour. Ofsted inspectors will continue to make monitoring visits to schools judged to have inadequate standards of behaviour to make sure they improve.
Ofsted will also strengthen the behaviour-related aspects of the school self-evaluation form. This provides the opportunity for schools to identify the proportion of lessons where pupils do not make the progress they should as a result of low level disruption or the bad behaviour of individuals.
Taken together, these changes will provide an even stronger incentive for schools to maintain high standards and improve them where they are currently not good enough.