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Outstanding schools in England will no longer face routine Ofsted inspections, the new education secretary has said.

Michael Gove said the move would allow education inspectors to focus their efforts on failing schools instead.

Under the plan, the 2,000 primary, 600 secondary and 300 special schools rated as outstanding by Ofsted would only be inspected if there were warning signs such as bad exam performance.

Currently they are inspected every five years.

The news comes just days after Mr Gove announced plans to allow all outstanding schools to automatically become academies, outside of local authority control. -bbc