Estyn outlines sector challenges and successes in early insights report

Estyn is today publishing its early insights from the Chief Inspector’s Annual Report 2023-24, providing a timely summary of what’s working well and what needs to improve across each education and training sector in Wales.  

Estyn aims to ensure His Majesty’s Chief Inspector’s findings are accessible and useful for education and training providers through an online annual report which is easy to read and digest and available to all as early as possible.

Estyn has today published sector specific summaries across sixteen sectors including schools, colleges, work-based learning, local government education services, youth work and education in the justice sector among others, outlining what’s working well and what needs strengthening. 

The early insights, which have been pulled together from the findings of Estyn inspections during 2023-2024, reflect on the key challenges and successes in each sector. To support providers with improvement in their own settings, the sector summaries point towards inspection reports and case studies from providers that were inspected and were found to be doing particularly well.  

Ahead of his full Annual Report, which will be published in January, Owen Evans, Chief Inspector, said:

“As we complete our second month inspecting under our new arrangements, it’s important that we reflect on the education and training landscape as a whole and highlight the areas presenting challenges and opportunities for providers across Wales.

“My early insights report brings together the valuable information we have gathered from inspecting more than 400 education and training providers over the past twelve months. We are privileged to have a national view of numerous education and training sectors across Wales and our insights are presented in a way that identifies common themes and challenges in a bid to support improvement.

“My full annual report will be published in January and will offer further insight into our current education and training priorities here in Wales, providing further detail about the findings of our inspections together with an analysis of a number of wider themes including teaching and the curriculum, recruitment and retention and anti-racism.”  

Read the full sector summaries here.