This section contains all the materials you will need to carry out inspection. The handbook outlines the processes you must follow as an inspector and it contains the grade descriptors that inspectors will use in arriving at their inspection judgements.
The Inspection Handbook Documents .zip file below contains:
The Inspection Template Donwloads .zip file contains all the other documents you will need to download as working documents during inspection, such as evidence forms.
Version v3.2 of the handbooks were published in January 2025, the major change being the updates in relation to the inspection of schools in religious order trusteeship. This edition is an update to the new handbooks published in September 2024. These contained significant updates from the previous editions. The change logs for all three updates are given below in one document containing all changes made since the beginning of the academic year 2024-2025 along with the latest versions of the handbook. Please make sure you look through all three change logs (two for Autumn and one for this Spring) to understand what has changed since the 2023-2024 editions.
The report templates are not avaiable to inspectors via this download as they are branded for each diocese. Please contact your dicoese to receive the branded report template.
Inspection Template downloads for Inspectors (zip)
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