1. The inspection team will meet at the end of each day of the inspection to discuss the emerging evidence and to consider connected evidence that needs to be gathered and evaluated. All members of the inspection team must take a full part in team meetings. Inspectors must discuss the evidence fully and provide professional challenge, where appropriate.
  2. The final judgements are the corporate responsibility of the inspection team. Inspectors will carefully consider the evidence and evaluate it against the Standards and guidance. Inspectors will weigh the evidence, using their professional judgement.
  3. Inspectors will reach a judgement about whether Standards are met in each section of the framework. Inspectors will consider the judgement for section one (leadership and management, and governance) after reaching judgements for sections two, three, four and safeguarding. Judgements made at the end of the inspection are subject to ISI’s quality assurance processes and are provisional until the publication of the final inspection report.
  4. Inspectors' judgements must be based on their professional evaluation of the evidence and must not be influenced by the potential impact on the school, for instance when the Standards are found to be unmet.