This piece summarises my reaction to Ofsted’s recently published report evaluating the impact of the focus on the curriculum within the EIF.

My last day working for Ofsted was early September 2012. It coincided with the start of what became known as ‘Wilshaw’s Framework. It was a Framework I had led the team in developing, trialling (a little), creating training materials and managing the plethora of departmental and political challenges associated with this sort of work. In my time I had either led or been a senior team member in the creation or revision to six inspection frameworks across a number of remits. So, I am always interested in any new Ofsted framework.

I was contacted by a longstanding friend and former HMI colleague this weekend. They were wondering whether my recent pointed criticism of Ofsted was wearing a tad thin and was being counterproductive. I was pleased he felt able to speak directly to me about something...