Currently the Department of Education Science Inspectorate, in association with the ELB Science Advisers, are:

• Reviewing and revising the Science Laboratory Building Guidelines Booklet with a view to bringing its specifications up-to-date and more in line with the current and future needs of teachers and pupils
  
• Producing a departmental self-evaluation document in a simple, straightforward structure that will enable science departments to identify strengths and weaknesses and structure future action plans. I would envisage some associated INSET when the document is formally released by the Department of Education.