Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- PART ONE: OFSTED INSPECTIONS -- 1: The Early Experience of OFSTED -- PART TWO: THE HANDBOOK -- 2: Where angels fear -- 3: The Handbook for the Inspection of Schools: Models, Outcomes and Effects -- PART THREE: THE INSPECTORS' PERSPECTIVE -- 4: 'A fit and proper person ... ' - The Training of Inspectors -- 5: Inspecting by the Book -- 6: OFSTED: A Registered Inspector's View -- 7: Lay Inspectors: Insiders and Outsiders -- 8: Value for Money: How Schools are Assessed by OFSTED -- 9: An Analysis of School Inspection Reports -- PART FOUR: THE SCHOOLS' PERSPECTIVE -- 10: Schools' Experiences of Inspection -- 11: Secondary Schools' Responses to OFSTED: Improvement through Inspection? -- 12: Teachers' Perceptions of Inspections -- PART FIVE: PARENTS' AND GOVERNORS' PERSPECTIVES -- 13: Parents' Responses to School Inspections -- 14: The OFSTED Experience: A Governors' Eye View -- PART SIX: THE POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 15: Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Policies -- Concluding Note -- References -- Index