Kerry Boffey helps FE providers navigate Ofsted inspections as boss of FIN – and she tells Jessica Hill the new inspection framework isn’t a reason to drop your guard
Kerry Boffey woke up every inspection morning with stomach ache during her 18 years as an inspector of independent training providers.
She believes every Ofsted inspector should wake with that sort of tension as it reflects an intense passion to “get the grade right because it matters”.
“If I ever didn’t have tummy ache in the morning, it would mean I didn’t care enough,” she says.
Nowadays, Boffey carries the same determination into helping others achieve successful inspection outcomes as chief executive of the Fellowship of Inspection Nominees (FIN).
And though Ofsted has launched a new inspection framework in the wake of headteacher Ruth Perry’s death in 2023, she points out that many of its inspectors are the same people as before, deploying the same methods for scrutinising evidence.
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