This is a guide geared to help teachers prepare for the now mandatory four-yearly school inspections. Teachers using this guide can learn from the authors" own experience of leadership and of leading inspections for three years to deal confidently with their own school inspections in an informed, proactive manner. Covering planning and preparing for the stages of inspection from notification through to responding to recommendations, the book also emphasizes the crucial leadership role of the headteacher, suggests ways in which governors can be helped with their particular responsibilities and contains helpful background reading. It is designed to be a text which can be "dipped in" for specific advice or read all the way through. It also contains extracts from OFSTED inspection reports.