Ofsted to press ahead with new inspection regime despite opposition | Ofsted
In despite the widespread opposition of the UK schools observer, the UK schools observer, the promotion of the new audit regime in November, including a color -coded report card for parents.
A “Extraordinary’ decision will be the highest in the field of six different examinations as a part of the revision initiated by the Reading Manager Ruth Perry after a visit by Ofteded, as first in the Guardian last month.
However, trade unions and school leaders said that the “Nando’s style” score card and the new audit framework were “worse öne from the current regime and that he would not do anything to alleviate the stress of managers and personnel.
Perry’s sister Prof Julia Waters described the changes as “an extreme complex confusion ve and called on the educational secretary Bridget Phillipsson to stop launching.
“This is not a new system. This is the same unreliable and punishing system cosmetic re -marking, fine tuning and expansion of the previously unreliable and punishing system.
A letter signed by Waters, unions, former school inspectors and mental health experts was sent to Phillipson, indicating that Ofsted could not learn Perry’s death lessons and did not call on Foreign Minister to intervene.
Perry killed himself in 2023 because Caversham Primary School, which has been leading for more than a decade, fell after maintaining the lowest, insufficient concerns of the highest, insufficient concerns of Ofted.
Berkshire’s senior coronary decided that his suicide “contributed by the Ofted supervision ,, after an investigation, during and after the investigation, Perry’s mental distress witnessed his colleagues and medical experts.
Ofted, Parents and professionals have listened carefully to their feedback, and after the publication of the public earlier this year, they made a number of changes in their original offers, and that many of them were enemies.
In accordance with the new regime, inspectors will look at a wider aspects of a school such as curriculum and teaching, participation and behavior, leadership and governance, success and inclusion.
Each assessment area will receive a note ranging from “extraordinary” and “strong standard”, “expected standard”, “requiring attention” and “emergency recovery, and offer a more detailed and nuance portrait to parents how a school performs.
The report card will also include a section on protection, which assesses whether the standards are met. The only general decision for a school, which was seen as a problematic, was scrapped in September 2024.
Phillipson said: “New school report cards will raise the bar for standards on the board by shedding light on what works and where changes are needed. By providing a more comprehensive picture of school performance – from participation and behavior to involve – we give parents the means of transparency they deserve and improvements to schools. “
Ofteded, almost seven of the 10 parents participating in the survey preferred the new -looking report cards for existing inspection reports, but the unions and school leaders express serious booking about the “Hurry” timeline with new inspections starting from November 10.
Pepe Let us remember that this process started with the suicide of a manager under the previous inspection system. We are still in a reform system that looks worse here. ”
Martyn Oliver, the chief inspector of the schools in the UK, which announced the new regime on Monday, said: “Children deserve the best possible education; their parents deserve the best possible information and training experts.
When the improvement areas are detected, schools and colleges will receive additional monitoring inspections to ensure rapid progress, while nurseries and child carers will be inspected every four years instead of six.
Oliver said that as well as a new focus on being involved and disadvantaged and vulnerable children, it would be a more collaborative approach to control, paying more attention to the welfare and workload of school leaders. Each audit team will be an additional inspectorate to add capacity.
“Nando’s style 1-5 rating scale is good for children or parents. Report cards will not help keep children safe, increase good teaching or motivate learning.”
Jon Coles, General Manager of United Learning, the biggest academy of England, was more positive. “Our school system is important that parents have high quality, reliable, independent and meticulous reports about the quality of their local schools.
Shadow Education Secretary Laura Trott said: “The worker is only destroying school standards to play in the melody of the unions.
