Teachers and school leaders have questioned the approach in light of the fact that increasing numbers of schools are now academies and therefore outside local authority control.
This in turn has hit local authorities’ budgets and capacity for school improvement.
The inspectorate began the first in a wave of its area inspections in Derby last week where 42 per cent of children are in secondary schools rated as good or outstanding.
Six areas will be visited in the next six months, with both primary and secondary schools, as well as the local authority’s school improvement service, being inspected over the course of a week.
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