The schools watchdog, Ofsted, have decided to bring their inspections of schools in house and end its £40m a year outsourcing contracts with companies including Serco & Tribal. Wanting to re-gain control and after some criticism regarding the quality of the contracted inspectors, the transition will take place in August 2015 when the current contracts come to an end. Currently Ofsted employ 300 in house inspectors with more than 2000 through outsourcing providers.

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