Press releases

With the evidence for change outlined in this report, there is an opportunity for a different approach and an inspection system that is supportive, effective and fair

Unless Ofsted considers a more supportive approach SEND students leaving education will bear the brunt.

This report rightly highlights the complex issues that school staff are facing, including the acute lack of SEND support for children and increasing rates of absenteeism.

Ofsted is broken and we need to see it replaced urgently by a system of inspection which is supportive, effective and fair.

Scrapping the headline grade is a step in the right direction.

National Education Union poll finds nearly three quarters of teachers have considered leaving the profession because of the negative impact of Ofsted on workload and their mental health.

The Green Party manifesto offers a refreshing chance to change the education system.

Conservative spending plans would result in the most catastrophic cuts to education for generations.

Education is in crisis. It is heartening that this manifesto recognises many of the major challenges.

Office of Statistics Regulation response to NEU complaint that Gillian Keegan’s use of Ofsted statistics is misleading.

This does not get to the heart of the matter. We need to see an end to the corrosive single-word judgements altogether.

Ofsted has lost the trust of the profession and needs to be replaced with an altogether fairer system of school support that is supportive and effective.