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The Bridge Schools Inspectorate has approval from the Secretary of State for Education and began its work in September 2008 to inspect schools belonging to the Christian Schools' Trust and the Association of Muslim Schools throughout England.

BSI provides an opportunity for cooperation between faith groups to establish a specialist faith schools inspectorate which respects their distinctive ethos. Ofsted monitors the work of independent inspectorates, including a sample of reports. An evaluation report on the inspectorate is available on the Ofsted website.

Inspection teams are led by highly experienced retired HMIs who understand the distinctive characteristics of faith based education.The aim is to raise standards in schools and to foster school improvement through inspection.

News update...
Recently BSI has become one of the publicly recognised inspection bodies for private Further Education Colleges for Tier 4 purposes. Damian Green, the Minister of State for Immigration, announced on 28th July 2011 that the Bridge Schools Inspectorate will provide educational oversight of private colleges of Further Education with a clear religious purpose which bring in international students. If you wish to register your College with BSI for inspection, please select the 'College inspections' tab on the left, or click here for more information.