Question follow-through · 38478
Schools: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that independent schools are subject to the same inspection standards as state-funded schools.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 14 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that independent schools are subject to the same inspection standards as state-funded schools.
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2025
Answer published
The regulatory regime for private schools, as set out in the 2008 Education and Skills Act, is based on compliance with the independent school standards, and failure can lead to a notice to improve, restrictions being placed on school operations or, follo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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