Ofsted will telephone schools just hours before an inspection team is due to arrive under new arrangements unveiled this month.
The chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw had proposed to introduce no-notice inspections for all schools from September, but after an outcry from headteachers has been forced to back down.
However, the current notice period of two days is still to be scrapped and instead schools will now receive a telephone call on the afternoon before inspectors arrive.An Ofsted statement said: “Under the new arrangements, schools will receive almost no notice of an inspection with inspectors calling headteachers the afternoon before an inspection takes place.
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