Audit: self-assess against the Ofsted EIF Toolkit and build a defensible SAR and QIP

Under the renewed education inspection framework, in use from November 2025, inclusion is its own graded evaluation area, judged on evidenced impact, not description. Your self-assessment report (SAR) and quality improvement plan (QIP) are where you state, honestly and with evidence, how good your inclusion really is and what changes next. Audit is the structured way to build both, against the Ofsted EIF Toolkit for FE. It’s free, and you can start today.

Self-assess against the Ofsted EIF Toolkit for FE

Audit structures your self-assessment around the renewed framework’s evaluation areas, with inclusion as its own graded area and evidenced impact weighted over surface compliance. You assess against what inspectors actually weigh, area by area, instead of starting from a blank page. It helps you self-assess and evidence inclusion and impact; the judgement at inspection stays yours.

Build a SAR and QIP you can defend

From that self-assessment, Audit takes you through to a defensible SAR and a concrete QIP, honest about where you are and clear on what changes next. It structures and supports the writing, and prompts you for the evidence behind each judgement. It does not write the SAR or QIP for you and it does not generate them automatically; the judgement on the record is yours.

A separate tool that works alongside Cognassist

Audit is a separate, standalone tool on its own web property, not part of the main Cognassist App, and it does not pull your platform data. You reference your own evidence, including Cognassist Insights and support records, into the SAR and QIP by hand. It works alongside the platform, but it doesn’t sync with it. To see where that referenced evidence comes from, explore how Cognassist helps providers evidence Ofsted inclusion readiness.

Audit is built by Cognassist, a specialist in FE inclusion evidence and Ofsted alignment, so the self-assessment speaks the language of the standalone inclusion judgement. That is the confidence quality leads take from working with the team behind it:

“If we had that Ofsted inspection today and I was explaining our learning support processes, I’d feel 100% more confident about the inclusion aspect than before.”

— Zoe Fox, Head of Functional Skills and Learning Support, Aspiration Training

Inclusion is a named, graded accountability now, and the SAR and QIP are where you evidence it. Audit gives you a free, structured, defensible way to self-assess and build both. Open the Audit tool and start your self-assessment today.