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Meeting Ofsted's 2025 EAL Requirements: Core Strategies for Every Teacher

Author: Robert Sharples, Author & Founder of Heddle EAL

Created: Thu 29th Jan 2026

The new Ofsted inspection toolkit makes explicit something that's been implied for years: effective EAL provision is whole-school EAL provision. It's about what every teacher is doing in every lesson, as well as what specialist support the EAL team can offer alongside.

Are you ready for Ofsted’s new EAL expectations?

Author: Iva Miteva, EAL Specialist

Created: Fri 17th Oct 2025

From November 2025, Ofsted will look more closely at how schools recognise and support learners at the early stages of learning English as an additional language. The new ‘State-funded school inspection toolkit’ (Ofsted, 2025, page 20) makes it absolutely clear that EAL provision is about unlocking multilingual potential.

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