Councils are urging Ofsted to postpone the resumption of monitoring inspections for schools, to avoid adding to the considerable burden of school leaders and staff.
A new report finds HMYOI Werrington, a young offender institution in Staffordshire, to be improving in many areas, with good care for the children detained, but high levels of violence remain a challenge.
An enhanced inspection approach, used when inspectors returned to Brook House Immigration Removal Centre at Gatwick nearly two years after a covert BBC film showed apparent abuse by staff, found no evidence of an abusive culture amonfg the present staff.
The Home Affairs Committee has raised repeated concerns over the Home Office’s approach to asylum accommodation contracts and the failure of the inspection regime to deal with substandard, unsafe housing.