50 Post-primary

58 Primary inspectors

50 Post-primary

Inspections and Reports

2,443 inspections in Early Learning and Care settings	92 Child Protection and Safeguarding Inspections (CPSIs)	2,293 SSE advisory visits t	526 advisory visits for he Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme	3,511 inspections in primary and special schools

7,735 probationary visits in primary and special schools	2,759 inspections in post-primary schools and centres for education	1,094 follow-through inspectoi ns • Good or very good progress on 81% of recommendatoi ns in primary, special and post- primary schools	Publication of thematic reports on Modern Foreign Learning, Digital Learning, STEM and on provision for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Key messages: Developing how the Inspectorate works

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established and run by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY), for example, the Operations and Systems Alignment Group (OSAG).

This chapter describes the organisation of the Inspectorate and outlines some of the key developments in how we carry out our inspection work in schools, ELC settings and other education settings. It also presents data in relation to the scope of the inspection, research and advisory work completed over the period September 2016 to December 2020, and looks at how we monitor improvement in schools and settings, and within the Inspectorate itself. The work that we are doing to develop how we incorporate the perspectives of parents and students in our inspections is commented on extensively in Chapter 8.