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Ofsted in under increasing pressure to publish inspection training sheets over concerns they may give schools with access to them an unfair advantage.

It comes after an “aide memoire”, understood to be provided to additional inspectors, led to furore after being shared on social media at the weekend.

The Confederation of School Trusts (CST) and Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) have now written to the inspectorate to demand their publication.

Heather Fearn, head of Ofsted‘s curriculum unit, emphasised that the same “messages” were available in its published research reviews and argued that inspection materials were created for “the activity of inspection”.

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