Series
Office for Standards in Education: Records relating to the establishment of OFSTED
Catalogue reference: KT 17
What's it about?
KT 17
This series includes policy files and high-level operational records dealing with the transfer of all functions for inspecting schools to the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED). Files include inspection frameworks and high-level...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KT 17
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office for Standards in Education: Records relating to the establishment of OFSTED
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1985-1997
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series includes policy files and high-level operational records dealing with the transfer of all functions for inspecting schools to the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED). Files include inspection frameworks and high-level governance records which illustrate how the Office was established, how the new legislation was implemented, and how OFSTED agreed on its role and the scope of work internally, with Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England (HMCI), and with the Department for Education.
This series contains records which pre-date the creation of the Office for Standards in Education
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arranged by file reference
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Records relating to high-level development of corporate plans and annual reports have been included in
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- HMI
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Office for Standards in Education, 1992-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 84 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2019 Office for Standards in Education
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- These records have been in the custody of the Office since establishment; certain files and responsibilities were inherited from the Department for Education and Science when OFSTED was formed in 1992.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1991 to 1994
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are anticipated
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Records selected under Records Collection Policy
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16436308/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: KT
Records of the Office for Standards in Education
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Office for Standards in Education: Records relating to the establishment of OFSTED