No-one would argue that our public education system, funded by billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money, must operate within a strong accountability framework.
However, when that framework is driven by an inspection system which creates a climate of fear across the school system, forces teachers to focus on meeting the needs of inspection rather than the needs of the children and young people they teach, and when inspection becomes the politicised driver of government policy rather than holding government policies to account, it is clear that there is something fundamentally wrong.
Ofsted’s independence, purpose and credibility has become seriously compromised in the eyes of the teaching profession.
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