Today, the team here had another detailed discussion with Ipsos MORI who are facilitating the consultation with existing survey providers on Ofsted's behalf.

Unfortunately, this phase of the consultation has been deemed confidential so I can't share much.

However, what I think I can say is that the survey process proposed at present is very sensible and practical. It provides schools with both transparency and choice about the process. In fact if schools already use an independent provider like ourselves, then they will hardly notice the difference.

There's still a long way to go though and Ofsted need to tender for and then appoint a delivery partner. Ultimately the delivery partner will be responsible for the detail.