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Bookings are now officially open for the National Rural Conference 2025, which will take place online from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 September.
This is the Rural Services Network’s flagship event of the year, bringing together rural decision-makers, practitioners, and advocates for four days of live, interactive sessions focused on the future of rural communities.
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School Inspections
Learning, Skills & Education Insight on the RSN website has now been updated with an analysis examining overall effectiveness of state-funded schools inspected in England. The analysis presents Ofsted school inspection data for the period 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2021 and allows selection of authority or class and classification averages. Points of note from the analysis include:
- For every type of school inspected (with the exception of nursery schools), a higher percentage are rated as Outstanding in Predominantly Urban local authority areas compared to those in Predominantly Rural.
- The converse is true for schools rated as Inadequate, where there is generally a higher percentage in Predominantly Rural local authority areas than seen in Predominantly Urban.
- Download the school inspection analysis here
