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Special Schools

In this section we aim to help educators, parents and students to better understand the process of inspection in special schools.

• Principles of Inspection and Review
• Being ready for inspection 
• Briefing for parents: this page opens up in a new window and aims to help parents to understand the inspection of a special school.
• Briefing note for headteachers of special schools: this page opens up in a new window and aims to help headteachers understand the inspection process of a special school.
• Support and advice for Chairperson of Parent Council: this page opens up in a new window and aims to help the Chairperson of the Parent Council understand the inspection process of a special school.
• Education Scotland Inspection Advice Note (August 2011): this advice notice opens up in a new document and sets out an adjustment in expectations, in line with national implementation expectations, for our evaluation of QI 5.1 (Curriculum) and QI 5.9 (Improvement through self-evaluation) for inspections which are announced from August 2011.
• Safeguarding/child protection pro forma: this page opens up in a new window and is used by establishments to record safeguarding issues.
• Advice on issuing pre-inspection questionnaires for headteachers
• Questionnaires: this page opens in a new window and contains links to  questionnaires.
• Special School inspection reports: this is a link to the special school inspection reports page.
• Improving Scottish Education: this link navigates you directly to the Special School section of the Improving Scottish Education report.
• How Good is our School: this link navigates you to a revised framework of indicators which help you to work out where your school is in improving its quality and aiming for excellence.