Inspection Reports and Publications

Evaluation Reports and Guidelines

The Inspectorate publishes a range of reports and other publications to advise and support schools, policy makers and the wider educational community:

Download Evaluation Reports and Guidelines here

Forms of Inspection

The Inspectorate carries out different types of inspections in schools and centres for education. We are also developing new types of inspection and advisory visits to schools.

The main forms of inspection that we use at the moment are:

• Whole School Evaluations in primary and post-primary schools
• Subject inspections in post-primary schools
• Early-Years Education-focused Inspections (EYEIs) are carried out in early-years services participating in the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Programme
• Early Years Follow Through Inspections
• Child Protection and Safeguarding Inspections
• Programme evaluations in post-primary schools
• Evaluations of centres for education
• Evaluation of Action Planning for Improvement in DEIS schools
• Whole College Evaluations in colleges offering Teagasc courses
• Inspection of Schools attached to Special Care Units and Children Detention Centres
• Specialised or thematic inspections in schools and centres for education
• Inspection of probationary teachers
• Incidental (unannounced) inspections in primary and post-primary schools and in centres for education.
• Follow-Through Inspections
• Curriculum Evaluations in Primary Schools
• Evaluation of Provision for Students with Additional and Special Educational Needs in Post Primary Schools
• Evaluations of Provision for Pupils with Special Educational Needs in Primary Schools
• Inspections of Courses in Irish-language Colleges

Finding Inspection Reports

Tips and advice on finding Inspection Reports for a particular school or a particular type of Inspection.

Review of Inspections

A teacher or a board of management affected by an inspection may seek a review of the inspection using the procedures outlined in Procedures for Review of Inspections on Schools and Teachers under Section 13(9) of the Education Act (1998) (Revised 2015).

• Procedure for Review of Inspection of Schools and Teachers under Section 13(9) of the Education Act, 1998 (This procedure allows schools and individual teachers to seek reviews of inspection reports)

School Forms

• Inspection Report School Response Form
• Inspection Report Factual Verification Form
• School Information Form: Primary WSE, WSE-MLL and Curriculum Evaluations
• School Information Form: Primary SEN Evaluations
• School Information Form: Primary DEIS Evaluations
• School Information Form: Post-Primary Schools