Ofsted has said it will 鈥渁void inspecting鈥� any school on the government鈥檚 list of settings with confirmed RAAC this term, unless it has “concerns”. The inspectorate last week said it would consider requests from affected schools under its deferral policy “as an exceptional circumstance”. But Ofsted has now changed its approach in a So far 147 schools have been named by the Department for Education as having confirmed RAAC, but this number is expected to increase when the list is updated next week. 鈥淭his term we will avoid inspecting any education setting that is on the Department for Education鈥檚 published list of education settings affected by RAAC,” the watchdog said. 鈥淭hese settings will be removed from our scheduling and will not be selected for inspection during the term.鈥� Ofsted acknowledged 鈥渟ome settings are not on the list, but are still impacted by RAAC in some way 鈥� for example, hosting pupils from schools that have RAAC鈥�. The inspectorate said it had 鈥渦pdated our deferrals guidance to make clear that we will consider disruption as a result of measures taken to deal with RAAC, when looking at inspection deferral鈥�. These measures 鈥渨ill be kept under review鈥�. However, if Ofsted has 鈥渃oncerns about a school then we may continue to carry out an inspection, in line with our current policy, regardless of their situation with RAAC鈥�.